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[Pennsylvania] New law angers roll-your-own cigarette shops, customers

Erie (PA) Times-News
added Jul 8, 2012 21:55
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[Pennsylvania] Roll-your-own cigarette shops move to form private smoking clubs

Owners of several tobacco shops that charged customers to use $35,000 cigarette-rolling machines until changes in federal law made the practice illegal are looking to establish private smoking clubs. Like other fraternal organizations, the nonprofit smo
Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review
added Dec 27, 2012 12:31
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Cigarette Revenue Drop Surprises Pennsylvania Legislators

To make up for declining cigarette tax revenues, some state legislators are proposing higher excise taxes for other tobacco products.
National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS)
added May 6, 2013 13:39
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[Pennsylvania] Nonsmoking is killing tax revenue

Pennsylvanians are buying fewer cigarettes, according to state sales tax collections. While that may be good news on the health front, a recent decline in cigarette tax collection means a bigger-than-expected revenue gap as the commonwealth scrutinizes
Pocono Record
added May 8, 2013 07:05
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[Pennsylvania] Pa. bill would tax cigars, smokeless tobacco

Rep. Ed Gainey (D-Allegheny) said his measure, House Bill 926, would provide $44 million for mass transit, roads and bridges.
WHTM-TV ABC27.com (Harrisburg, PA)
added Mar 28, 2013 16:36
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[Pennsylvania] Editorial: As culture changes, Great American Smokeout still critical

Unfortunately sales of little cigars that contain many of the same cancer-causing substances as cigarettes increased 240 percent between 1997 and 2007. Because they can be candy or fruit-flavored and usually cost a lot less than cigarettes, little cigars
Delaware County (PA) Daily Times
added Nov 19, 2012 15:45
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[Pennsylvania] CARPENTER: Cigarette smoking attitudes represent a cultural upheaval

Smoking, however, often affects others in various ways and, when it comes to the acceptance of smoking, it is amazing how the tide has turned. The reaction to Sunday's column about smoking by parasites on public assistance was pretty much 100 percent in
Allentown (PA) Morning Call
added Jul 13, 2012 05:49
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[Pennsylvania] Mother: flicked cigarette was to teach her 'how to drive'

Child burned by cigarette in road rage incident
WHTM-TV ABC27.com (Harrisburg, PA)
added May 15, 2012 13:31
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[Pennsylvania] Pa. joins 30 states in rejecting ’98 tobacco master settlement

Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane said this week that the commonwealth has opted to decline the tobacco industry’s settlement arising out of the 1998 lawsuit, with the Keystone State instead vowing to continue litigation. Kane was quoted as sa
The Pennsylvania Record
added Apr 18, 2013 15:04
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[Pennsylvania] Dark secret, plot impacting tobacco industry affect retiree in fictional account

Genetti is harboring a dark secret that has driven him to decide to commit suicide, and while on the journey he stumbles across a plot impacting one of the largest industries in the country - the tobacco industry - putting his life in jeopardy.
Pottsville (PA) Republican
added Jan 7, 2013 07:20
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