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Premium Cigar Association Teams with Americans for Tax Reform Against Georgia Legislators  

The Georgia House of Representatives is mounting a move to increase state excise taxes on cigarettes by 270 percent and pipe and smokeless tobacco by 150 percent that the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association and Americans for Tax Reform are having none of. House Bill 39, with more than 60 sponsors, aims to increase state cigarette taxes from the current $.37 per pack to $1.37 per pack and smokeless tobacco state tax would go up 150 percent from 10 percent of wholesale value to 25 percent of wholesale cost. In a letter to Georgia House and Senate Taxpayer Protection Pledge signers, the ATR said, "A vote in favor of this tax hike would be a violation of the… commitment you made to your constituents to oppose any and all tax increases."

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