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Taxes on cigarettes gain support from tobacco groups 

In what may be a sign of the Apocalypse, tobacco farmers are encouraging the Kentucky General Assembly to increase the state's tax on cigarettes.

Tobacco farmers and farm groups hope the money raised would be used by the state to offset money they had expected to receive at the end of December from the Phase II Tobacco Settlement. Because of a North Carolina judge's ruling last month, that money may be months in coming - or it may not come at all.

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