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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
Oct 10, 2012
Shelley Keeney - State Representative
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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
Oct 26, 2012
Missouri Secretary of State
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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
Oct 15, 2012
Watchdog.org (Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity)
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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.
Oct 23, 2012
Kansas City (MO) Star
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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
Oct 25, 2012
New Europe
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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:
Oct 1, 2012
ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) (us)
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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
Oct 25, 2012
Springfield (MO) News-Leader
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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
Oct 24, 2012
Columbia (MO) Tribune
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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
Oct 24, 2012
Ghana News Agency (gh)
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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.
Oct 24, 2012
AP - Associated Press
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Oct 24, 2012 17:38