Libertarianz: Tobacco Tax Grab Stinks
Libertarianz leader Richard McGrath marked the rise in tobacco excise tax a naked grab for money by the National and Maori Parties.
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Libertarianz: Tobacco Tax Grab Stinks
February 22, 2012 – 4:55 pm
RPT-Australia seeks plain packaging for tobacco products
February 21, 2012 – 4:52 pm
RPT-Australia seeks unadorned packaging for tobacco harvest
(Repeats item first in print from late Wednesday)
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Shopkeepers to have their say on impending tobacco display ban
February 20, 2012 – 4:53 pm
Shopkeepers to have their say on impending tobacco show ban
A CONSULTATION giving shopkeepers their say about the ban on tobacco displays will be launched today.
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Ottawa moves forward on tobacco product cutbacks
February 16, 2012 – 8:45 pm
Ottawa moves forward on tobacco product cutbacks
Tobacco retailers will lower their product lines July 5 when the sale of cigarettes, modest cigars and blunt…
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Smokeless Tobacco a Poisonous Lure for Kids
February 14, 2012 – 4:56 am
Smokeless Tobacco a Poisonous Pull for Kids
Sweetie-like smokeless tobacco harvest are quickly becoming a major produce of infant and outcome poisonings.
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Tobacco tax increases not funding smoking prevention
February 13, 2012 – 5:19 am
Tobacco tax increases not funding smoking prevention
Fourteen states and Washington, D.C., hiked cigarette taxes in 2009, but not enough of that money is going toward broadcast health efforts, the CDC says.
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Increasing Kansas’ tobacco tax by $1 will bring in $74.7M in needed revenue
February 12, 2012 – 5:03 am
Increasing Kansas’ tobacco tax by $1 will bring in $74.7M in needed revenue
Newly announced budget projections show the need to bring to somebody’s attention Kansas’ cigarette tax by $1, according to a coalition of broadcast health groups. Studies show increasing the cigarette tax by $1 would bring in $74.7 million in needed revenue, while raising the tax at a akin rank on smokeless tobacco and other tobacco harvest would bring to somebody’s attention an additional $23 million.
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Illinois’ tobacco tax would bring in $297.6M in new revenue, reduce youth smoking
February 11, 2012 – 5:59 am
Illinois’ tobacco tax would bring in $297.6M in new revenue, lower youth smoking
A new poll released today finds that 74 percent of Illinois voters support raising the tobacco tax by $1 per pack to cut the state’s budget shortage and lower youth tobacco use.
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Firms fined for tobacco price fixing
February 10, 2012 – 4:53 am
Firms fined for tobacco price fixing
LONDON (Reuters) – The consumer affairs watchdog has slapped a confirmation £225 million fine on two tobacco firms and nine retailers for fixing prices of tobacco harvest between 2001 and 2003.
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A Smoking Gun: How the American Tobacco Industry Gets Away With Murder
February 9, 2012 – 5:47 pm