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[Massachusetts] SUN/REESE: Tobacco tax - Who smokes and who pays?
the poor and the less educated smoke at a higher rate than those with higher incomes and more schooling. As a result, Massachusetts' ever-increasing tobacco tax has become increasingly regressive.
May 28, 2013
Milford (MA) Daily News
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May 28, 2013 06:47
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[Massachusetts] States becoming more dependent on tobacco levies
Massachusetts lawmakers' growing reliance on tobacco taxes to help balance the state budget is part of a national trend that has grown with each flutter of the country's economy.
May 27, 2013
Milford (MA) Daily News
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May 28, 2013 06:53
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Louisiana Shelves Proposed Tax Hike On Cigarettes, But Local Insurance Agents At Cunningham Financial Group Offer Advice For Quitting
World No Tobacco Day takes place annually, in May. The local agents offer some tips to help quit today.
May 27, 2013
PR Web
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May 27, 2013 12:24
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[Massachusetts] As state diverts tobacco funds, treatment programs up in smoke
This fiscal year, state government will collect a combined $815 million in tobacco taxes and payments from a 1998 settlement with tobacco companies. It will spend $4.1 million on antitobacco programs -- less than 1 percent of total revenues.
May 27, 2013
Lowell (MA) Sun
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May 27, 2013 11:20
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[Massachusetts] Taxing tobacco a national addiction
Raising tobacco taxes is an easy political choice: there is little opposition and plenty of support. But as Massachusetts grows more dependent on tobacco revenues now approaching $1 billion a year, the use of a sin tax to balance the books raises questio
May 26, 2013
Milford (MA) Daily News
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May 28, 2013 06:56
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[Alaska] Bethel city rakes in revenue from new tobacco tax
A new excise tax on tobacco in the Southwest Alaska hub of Bethel brought the city more than $25,000 in its first month in effect. With an election looming, city officials have yet to decide what to do with the money.
May 26, 2013
Alaska Dispatch
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May 27, 2013 12:32
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[Taiwan] Groups say smoking levy should be used for health
Women and children should be the main beneficiaries of a health and welfare surcharge levied on the sales of cigarettes, health promotion and child-protection groups, along with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Alicia Wang (王育æ•), said on
May 26, 2013
Taipei Times (tw)
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May 26, 2013 01:42
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[Asia] UAE's anti-smoking campaigner defends move to raise cost of cigarettes
The UAE'S leading anti-smoking campaigner, Dr Wedad Al Maidoor, has dismissed claims that a 100 per cent increase in tobacco tax would do little to encourage smokers to kick the habit.
May 26, 2013
7 Days (ae)
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May 26, 2013 01:21
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[New York] LETTERS: NYC's smoking problem: illegal cigs, misguided pols
May 25, 2013
New York Post
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May 26, 2013 02:15
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[West Virginia] Angry Drivers Lit Up About Proposed Cigarette Taxes
The West Virginia Blue Ribbon Highway commission will propose to raise taxes in order to fix the highways. The highway commission's plan is to increase the states sales tax, vehicle registration and title fees and raise the tax on cigarettes.
May 24, 2013
WVNS-TV CBS 59 (Ghent, WV)
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May 26, 2013 02:01