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Jump to full article: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 2008-07-15
Intro: Here's the legislative summary of the issue:
- During the 2008 regular session, the House passed and sent to the Senate a proposal to increase the cigarette tax to deal with the deficit. Senate Public Health Chairman Hob Bryan, D-Amory, killed the House bill by refusing to consider it in his committee
Bryan says he still supports raising the cigarette tax, but it would be useless to consider the issue because a two-thirds majority could not be garnered to override a certain Barbour veto.
- Barbour, a former national tobacco lobbyist, has blocked all efforts to raise Mississippi's 18-cent-per-pack cigarette tax, which is the third-lowest in the nation and $1 below the national average.
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