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Tobacco tax jump proposed 

A North Dakota group’s plans for cutting tobacco use include a tripling of the state’s tax on cigarettes.
Jump to full article: Associated Press (AP), 2009-07-07

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The advisory board also wants to ban smoking in businesses and places where people gather. Smoking in bars and outdoor stadiums would be outlawed. The board wants to meet those goals within five years.

North Dakota voters approved the board’s formation last November. It is financed by money from a state lawsuit settlement against tobacco companies.

Former state Health Department tobacco prevention director Kathleen Mangskau chairs the board.

Mangskau says North Dakota is known as the “ashtray of the upper Midwest”

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