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McGurn: Illinois Blows Smoke at Taxpayers ($$)

A cigarette tax hike is an unintentional gift to neighboring states.
The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition
added Jun 6, 2012 13:39
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Deadbeat Illinois: State budget crisis hampers tobacco prevention

Illinois devotes only a sliver of that money — $12.7 million this year in the Land of Lincoln — for tobacco prevention and control to discourage people from smoking and helping them avoid the nation’s No. 1 cause of preventable death.
Rockford (IL) Register-Star
added Feb 25, 2013 11:35
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[Illinois] $10 Billion Tobacco Case is Dead

A multibillion-dollar class action against tobacco giant Philip Morris cannot be reopened, a Madison County judge said.
Courthouse News
added Dec 14, 2012 12:14
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Local businesses affected by Illinois cigarette tax now in effect

Customers might be shocked to see the price of their cigarettes when they stop in liquor stores in Illinois. Smokers are now paying $1.98 in tax per pack of cigarettes.
WGEM-TV (Quincy, IL)
added Jun 26, 2012 03:44
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[Illinois] Local tobacco stores brace for new state tax

"People are just going to go to other states to buy cigarettes and our business is going to be hurt very badly," said Krishna Agarwan, owner of Lover Cigar, 176 N. York St. in Elmhurst. "They should match with the neighboring states."
Chicago Suburban Newspapers
added Jun 15, 2012 13:34
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[Illinois] 10 more indicted in trafficking in contraband cigarettes

More than a dozen people were captured on hidden cameras at a suburban warehouse secretly operated by undercover federal agents paying millions of dollars in cash, firearms and narcotics to buy tens of millions of illegal cigarettes that had not been pro
Chicago Tribune
added Jun 10, 2012 13:41
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[Illinois] SUDERMAN: Baptists and Bootleggers, Tobacco Tax Edition w/Photo

Reason Magazine
added May 10, 2012 03:14
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[Illinois] Chicago Residents Cross the Border for Tobacco

DEKALB, IL – Local tobacco stores, which are less than an hour’s drive from Chicago and Cook County, are seeing a spike in sales following a recent increase in the county’s cigarette tax, Northern Star reports.
National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS)
added Mar 19, 2013 01:25
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[Illinois] Cigarette Taxes In Chicago Up To $6.67 Per Pack Tomorrow, After County Tax Hike

WBBM Newsradio’s Nancy Harty reports a pack of cigarettes in Chicago will set smokers back $6.67 in taxes alone starting Friday, thanks to a $1-per-pack hike in the county’s cigarette tax.
CBS 2 Chicago
added Feb 28, 2013 14:00
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[Illinois] Five years later, smoking ban seems to be working for both sides

Smokers have adapted to stepping outside for the occasional puff, the environments within most restaurants and taverns are now much more healthful, and at least some of the restaurant and bar owners have found an unexpected boom in business as a result o
Quincy (IL) Herald-Whig
added Jan 7, 2013 04:50
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