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		<title>States are Collecting Back Cigarette Taxes from Online Retailers</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2010/03/03/uncollected-cigarette-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2010/03/03/uncollected-cigarette-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>debra_birkholz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are good you will be getting a letter in the mail if you bought cigarettes online trying to avoid paying the high taxes on them. States including Connecticut are doing just that. According to their web site, “The Jenkins Act requires, that out-of-state retailers report the transactions.” Yes this means all the retailers that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Way to Go California &#8211; 1 800 No Butts at Your Service</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2009/04/09/1-800-no-butts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanbreck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California&#8217;s Example Provides Encouragement that Smokers Can Stop Today in the LA Times, it was reported that the use of cigarettes in California is steadily declining. Smoking statistics for adults have dropped since California passed a twenty-five cent tax on each pack of cigarettes. Cigarette Taxes Encourage Quitting Smoking The decline of adult smokers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Winners and Losers &#8211; Largest Tobacco Tax Increase</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2009/04/02/increase-tobacco-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2009/04/02/increase-tobacco-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanbreck</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It wasn&#8217;t so long ago that Measure 50 was put before a people&#8217;s vote in the state of Oregon. If it had passed, Oregon would have received 85 cents from each pack of cigarettes sold in the state, with the funds marked for children&#8217;s health care programs (and other important programs needing funding in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Smoker&#8217;s Advice to Teens: Add up the Costs of Cigarettes</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/04/13/one-smokers-advice-to-teens-add-up-the-costs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/04/13/one-smokers-advice-to-teens-add-up-the-costs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kabuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most adults would counsel the greatest negative involved with smoking cigarettes is increased risk of lung cancer. This truth is far away in the minds of most young smokers, they tend to not even think about it. So, if you&#8217;re a teen smoker and &#8220;not afraid&#8221; of lung cancer, just think about the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R. J. Reynolds Backs Campaign Against Tobacco Tax Hike</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/03/03/rj-reynolds-backs-campaign-against-tax-hike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/03/03/rj-reynolds-backs-campaign-against-tax-hike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kabuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cigarette tax proposal would change tax from 7 cents per pack to 30-50 cents if the plan passes. However,  the country&#8217;s second-largest cigarette company is an anonymous backer of a campaign opposing a bill to raise South Carolina&#8217;s lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax. The message began showing up in mailboxes last week &#8212; 10,000 postcards sent to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco May Kill 1 Billion in This Century, WHO Says</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/13/tobacco-may-kill-1-billion-in-this-century-who-says/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/13/tobacco-may-kill-1-billion-in-this-century-who-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tobacco use will kill 1 billion people in this century. This is a 10-fold increase over the past 100 years, unless governments in poor nations raise taxes on consumption and mandate health warnings, the World Health Organization said. No country fully implements these most important tobacco &#8211; control measures, according to a 330-page report released [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Industry Puts Profits Before Kids in Defeating Oregon Ballot Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/tobacco-industry-puts-profits-before-kids-in-defeating-oregon-ballot-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/tobacco-industry-puts-profits-before-kids-in-defeating-oregon-ballot-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement of William V. Corr, Executive Director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Tobacco or Kids? Who has values? Washington, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; By telling $12 million worth of lies, the Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds tobacco companies have again protected their profits at the expense of children. By defeating a ballot initiative to increase Oregon&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measure 50 Fails in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/measure-50-fails-in-oregon-huge-sigh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/measure-50-fails-in-oregon-huge-sigh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Measure 50 would have raised the tax on a pack of cigarettes by 85 cents to pay for children&#8217;s health care and other programs in Oregon. Don&#8217;t let this failure for the health of Oregon&#8217;s children lead you to believe that Big Tobacco will always win. There will always be web sites like Ciggyfree to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You &#8216;For Sale&#8217; on Measure 50 in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/03/are-you-for-sale-on-measure-50-oohrah-oregon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/03/are-you-for-sale-on-measure-50-oohrah-oregon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Tobacco is sweating this one out after poison-nicotine profits supply $12 millions for subverting Oregon voters. That old cliche &#8220;The nation&#8217;s eyes are on you&#8221; is quite literally true for Tuesday&#8217;s vote.  Big Tobacco has been forced to wreak out the largest bribe-run of political-ad monies in Oregon&#8217;s history, with $12 millions already spent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Campaign Tops Record $11 million (Oregonian)</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/31/tobacco-campaign-tops-record-11-million-oregonian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/31/tobacco-campaign-tops-record-11-million-oregonian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tobacco money against Oregon&#8217;s Measure 50&#8242;s proposed cigarette tax increase keeps piling in. Philip Morris has donated another $1.1 million to the campaign, putting total contributions to that effort over $11 million. Philip Morris, the Richmond, Virginia,-based maker of Marlboro cigarettes, and its parent company have donated $6.9 million to Stop The Measure 50 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send the Carpetbaggers Home: Vote Yes on 50</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/25/send-the-carpetbaggers-home-vote-yes-on-50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/25/send-the-carpetbaggers-home-vote-yes-on-50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salem Oregon &#8211; What was it Deep Throat said during the Watergate fiasco? &#8220;Follow the money.&#8221; When we do so today in the Measure 50 debate what do we find? We find the anti-50 side has shattered all records for spending&#8230; over $10 million and still going strong&#8230; 99.999% of which comes from three out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarette Companies Light Up More Donations Against Measure 50</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/15/cigarette-companies-light-up-more-donations-against-measure-50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/15/cigarette-companies-light-up-more-donations-against-measure-50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a last-drag effort to defeat Oregon&#8217;s 85-cents-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes, the makers of Camel smokes tossed in another $905,000 today against the fight to crush Measure 50. Today&#8217;s donation puts tobacco contributions at a staggering record of $10 million so far. Reynolds American, the producers of Camel, has now contributed $4.2 million to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R.J. Reynolds Forms Committee To Oppose Oregon Cigarette Tax Increase</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/08/23/rj-reynolds-forms-committee-to-oppose-oregon-cigarette-tax-increase/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/08/23/rj-reynolds-forms-committee-to-oppose-oregon-cigarette-tax-increase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[R.J. Reynolds Tobacco on Friday filed with the Oregon state Elections Division to form the &#8220;Oregonians Against the Blank Check&#8221; committee. Their goal is to oppose a ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to increase the state cigarette tax by 84.5 cents per pack to fund health initiatives, the Oregonian reported. Measure 50 [...]]]></description>
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