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Sri Lanka hikes tobacco taxes

Sri Lanka has raised tobacco taxes from October 06, a notice posted on the island's customs office showed, to raise extract more money from citizens and cut a budget deficit stemming from unchecked state spending.
Financial Express (bd)
added Oct 7, 2012 22:50
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[Missouri] LETTER: Increase tobacco tax

It is necessary to raise the Missouri tobacco tax
Kansas City (MO) Star
added Oct 7, 2012 21:47
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[Kansas] EDITORIAL: The Star's recommendation | The time has come to raise Missouri's cigarette tax

It’s not often a single vote can make a state smarter, healthier and more prosperous. But Missourians have the chance to achieve all of those things on Nov. 6 by voting yes on Proposition B. The ballot measure increases the tax on tobacco products by a
Kansas City (MO) Star
added Oct 7, 2012 18:00
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[France, Spain] French tobacconists block Spanish border in price protest

Some 100 French tobacconists Sunday blocked access to the Spanish border in the southwestern frontier village of Perthus to protest a recent price hike on cigarettes and tobacco products.
AFP - Agence France Presse (fr)
added Oct 7, 2012 13:05
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[Canada] Day 67: Under foreign influence

Mr. Hoult is a former heavy-weight in the former RJ-Reynolds empire. He is the one-time marketing boss for RJR-Macdonald (1979-1983), president of RJR-Macdonald (1987-88) and executive vice president for RJ-Reynolds USA operations (1988-89).
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Oct 6, 2012 18:18
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[Missouri] Lawmaker, lobbyist debate tobacco tax measure

A lobbyist and a lawmaker spent an hour yesterday trying to convince University of Missouri students how to vote on the upcoming tobacco tax increase.
Columbia (MO) Tribune
added Oct 6, 2012 06:04
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Sri Lanka hikes tobacco taxes

Sri Lanka has raised tobacco taxes from October 06, a notice posted on the island's customs office showed, to raise extract more money from citizens and cut a budget deficit stemming from unchecked state spending.
Lanka Business Online (lk)
added Oct 6, 2012 05:08
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[Philippines] CHANCO: Focus on the tobacco farmers

I surmise that JPE is reasonable enough to go along with a national program to curtail the smoking habit if such a plan takes care of the tobacco farmers too. He just doesn't want to leave them high and dry. The problem with the proponents of the curren
Philippine Star (ph)
added Oct 4, 2012 16:24
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[Mid-east, Uae] GCC considers raising tax on cigarettes

finance ministers from all six states in the Gulf Cooperation Council convene tomorrow in Riyadh. Among the many topics to be discussed is the possibility of increasing a region-wide tobacco tax in response to calls by the healthcare professionals in the
The National Newspaper (ae)
added Oct 4, 2012 15:45
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[Australia] Negative anti-smoking messages stall the desire to quit

Shock and fear campaign tactics and restrictive measures on smoking do not encourage young people to kick their habits, an RMIT University study has found. Cigarette price increases and limitations on smoking in public places actually decrease the desire
B&T Weekly
added Oct 4, 2012 15:29
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