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• Gov. Barbor Signs Off On Cigarette Tax Increase 

Jump to full article: WJTV News Channel 12 CBS (Jackson, MS), 2009-05-13

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Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco lobbyist long opposed to raising Mississippi’s cigarette tax, has relented in the face of slumping budget revenues and signed the state’s first increase in nearly a quarter century.

Mississippi’s 18-cents-a-pack excise tax hadn’t changed since 1985 before Wednesday’s bill signing. On Friday, it goes up to 68 cents a pack.

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