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[Missouri] Ballot Preview: Cigarette Tax (Proposition B)

Shall Missouri law be amended to: Ø Create the Health and Education Trust Fund with proceeds of a tax of $0.0365 per cigarette and 25 percent of the manufacturer's invoice price for roll-your-own tobacco and 15 percent for other tobacco products; Ø U
Shelley Keeney - State Representative
added Oct 26, 2012 03:57
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[Missouri] Elections: 2012 Approved Initiative Petitions

Statutory Amendment to RSMo Chapters 149 and 196, Relating to Cigarette and Other Tobacco Product Taxation, version G 2012-134
Missouri Secretary of State
added Oct 26, 2012 03:51
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[Missouri] MO: Groups blowing smoke over cigarette tax increase

Opponents of Proposition B have bought billboard space on Missouri’s highways and interstates, saying the it would amount to a 760-percent tax increase. Yard signs, paid for by proponents, populate various neighborhoods and tout that the measure would i
Watchdog.org (Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity)
added Oct 26, 2012 03:44
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Voters asked to raise Missouri cigarette tax, now lowest in U.S.

At 17 cents per pack, it’s the lowest in U.S., and well below the $1.49 national average.
Kansas City (MO) Star
added Oct 26, 2012 03:34
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[Europe] Kessler flip-flops on key tobacco control issue

Kessler said to the Italian Parliament, that “stripped of branding, the packet … can be more easily counterfeited” (translation from Italian). What is even more interesting is that Kessler told the Italian Parliament that OLAF does not have an official p
New Europe
added Oct 25, 2012 10:19
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[Oklahoma] Top 5 Recipients @ tobaccomoney.com

New website tobaccomoney.com highlights campaign contributions and gifts from tobacco lobbyists to members of the Oklahoma State Legislator. Here is a listing of some of the websites top 5 recipients:
ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) (us)
added Oct 25, 2012 07:31
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[Missouri] LEONE: Prop B money would go up in smoke

Proposition B's outrageous and unfair tax increases, which range from 150 percent to 760 percent depending upon the product being taxed, are not about education or health care. Instead, they're about greedy special interest groups, responsible tax polic
Springfield (MO) News-Leader
added Oct 25, 2012 06:13
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[Missouri] Chamber endorses tobacco tax increase

The Proposition B amendment "would positively influence statewide public education from elementary to higher education," Randy Coil, chairman of the chamber's Board of Directors, said in a statement. "In addition, the University of Missouri College of Med
Columbia (MO) Tribune
added Oct 24, 2012 17:52
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[Ghana] NGO urges government to pass Tobacco Control Bill

The Programme Director of Vision for Alternative Development, a non-government organisation has noted that the passage of the Tobacco Control Bill is the effective means of preventing the marketing and usage of the product. Mr Labram Musah Massawudu said
Ghana News Agency (gh)
added Oct 24, 2012 17:50
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[Missouri] Measure targets lowest-in-nation tobacco tax

Missouri voters next month are being asked for the third time in a decade whether they want to continue to have the nation’s lowest tobacco tax.
AP - Associated Press
added Oct 24, 2012 17:38
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