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PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS
Jump to full article: Canada.com (ca), 2002-04-04
Author: Lorne Baldwin, St. Albert / Edmonton Journal
Intro: I have a beef with King Ralph and his cohorts regarding their recent increase in tobacco taxes. Manufactured cigarettes or "tailor-mades" have increased by 35 per cent, which I suppose is reasonable.
On the other hand, I am a senior and roll my own cigarettes. The cost of 50 grams of tobacco went from $7.27 to $14.33 which is almost 100 per cent. This has got to be a real travesty. Some people pay 35 per cent extra and we pay 100 per cent more.
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