Californians back hiking cigarette tax by $2: poll
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California voters by nearly a 2-to-1 majority would support increasing their state's cigarette tax by $2 per pack to help raise cash for a state effort to provide health-care insurance to the uninsured, according to the latest Field Poll released on Friday.
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(Buffalo, NY, November 18, 2004) - - The American Cancer Society is honoring some Western New Yorkers who are trying to help others kick their smoking habit.
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By next year, Maryland residents could pay another penny per dollar in sales tax on most products they buy. They could pay several cents more for each gallon of gas they put in their cars and another dollar for each pack of cigarettes they smoke.
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A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday renewed an effort to empower the government to regulate cigarettes as a drug, winning praise from anti-smoking advocates.
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And the American Cancer Society is urging smokers to try butting out again -- at least for 24 hours -- on Nov. 18 during the 28th Great American Smokeout.
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The passage of a major U.S. tax bill  on Monday containing a buyout for tobacco farmers has left a  bitter taste among public health groups that had hoped to link  the funding to new federal laws regulating cigarettes.
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As a Senate committee prepared to approve an additional $35 billion for children's health insurance, the Bush administration spelled out its objections to how the increase would be paid for &#151; a 61-cent increase on the excise tax for a pack of cigarettes.
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Americans are willing to pay higher taxes to do it, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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Opponents of New York Mayor Michael  Bloomberg's smoking ban have donated thousands of dollars to  the leading Democrat expected to challenge his re-election bid  this year.
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Smokers would pay an extra 50 cents for a pack of cigarettes in Massachusetts, and Bay State employers would be required to offer healthcare coverage to their workers under legislation unveiled yesterday by a key state senator.
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VICTORIA - A stunning surprise for BC consumers: the provincial sales tax is going back to seven per cent from 7.5 per cent. Finance Minister Gary Collins made the announcement Wednesday in the legislature.
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The majority of people are in favour of the smoking ban due to start on July 1st, figures suggest.
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WASHINGTON -- A major rewrite of corporate tax law that would end a trade dispute with Europe won congressional negotiators' backing yesterday after House Republicans beat back efforts to increase tobacco regulation. The measure would repeal a tax break for thousands of US exporters that the World Trade Organization ruled illegal. As a replacement, it offers more than $140 billion ...
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Sep. 9--Rumblings a month ago made it clear that the proposed 1-cent (16.7%) sales tax increase for Okaloosa County was in trouble weeks before the referendum went before the voting public.
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Two thirds of Scots believe pubs should be able to accommodate smokers, a survey says.
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Smokeless tobacco power UST wants smokers to go smokeless. Seems to be working.
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By Andy Sher, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 8--NASHVILLE -- House Democrats backed off plans Thursday to seek another 3-cent-per-pack cigarette tax on top of a previously passed 42-cent increase.   Gov.