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EDITORIAL: No-brainer of the week: Raise Virginia's cigarette tax 

Last year, tobacco interests contributed more than $1.2 million to Virginia statewide and legislative candidates. Philip Morris gave more than any other corporation to candidates in Virginia.

In the anything-goes campaign finance climate of the Old Dominion, money usually talks louder than either polls or common sense. This isn't always the case. But it's the case often enough to suggest that cigarette tax advocates, if they are to have any hope of success, must treat their poll not as the final word but as the beginning of an arduous campaign.

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