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Many Upset Over Cigarette Tax Hike Proposal
Danville, VA - Danville business owners and some local politicians are not pleased with Governor Tim Kaine (web) 's proposal to double Virginia's cigarette tax. The tax-dollars would go toward...
Remove the barriers from tobacco cessation
Do we pay now, or do we pay a lot more later? The reason for my question revolves around Georgia’s opportunity to provide tobacco cessation benefits to state employees, a necessary health service...
If you're selling a product known to kill people, you face a knotty marketing problem: You must somehow persuade your customers to keep paying for it, and often pay more, but never exactly admit...
Increasing tobacco taxTax makes a minority pay an unfair share of state expenses
Kentucky's legislative and gubernatorial approach to the current budget crisis is disturbing. Their own arguments for raising the cigarette tax contradict themselves. Because of an apparent $456...
Big Tobacco's long money trail in Virginia
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's call for increasing the state tax on cigarettes from 30 cents a pack to 60 cents was long overdue. The nationwide average is $1.19 a pack. Both Maryland and the...
Tobacco industry faces sales volume pressure
British American Tobacco (M) Sdn Bhd managing director Jack Bowles expects legal cigarette sales volume next year to be affected by the large tax-led prices and economic downturn. DO you foresee...
Those against cigarette tax are mum on alternatives
Gov. Tim Kaine wants to double the state's 30-cents-per-pack cigarette tax to minimize cuts in medical care for indigent children, nursing home residents and the disabled. House Republican leaders...
Documents offer look at big tobacco's tactics
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Two studies released Tuesday allege that big tobacco companies tried to undermine anti-smoking policies in Asia by infiltrating a research institute in Thailand and...
Regulations for tobacco sector giving rise to illegal trade
Lahore—The tobacco cultivated is less than one per cent of total irrigated area of the country but contributes handsome amount in national exchequer both through local consumption and exports....
Coles Express stores guilty of breaching anti-tobacco laws
Coles Express Service stations that ran a promotion to "upsell" cigarettes to their customers have been found guilty of breaching anti-tobacco advertising laws. The NSW Health Department took 26...
