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• Miss. governor wants more tobacco taxes considered 

Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2009-05-06

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Gov. Haley Barbour is asking lawmakers to pass a $90 million hospital tax and consider other ways to generate revenue from tobacco companies. . . .

Barbour says he won't veto a proposal to increase the cigarette excise tax from 18 cents to 68 cents a pack. But he says lawmakers should also change the way smokeless tobacco is taxed and put a larger tax on cigarettes made by companies that don't pay into the lawsuit settlement Mississippi reached with major tobacco companies in the 1990s.

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