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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>Reynolds American Adds $304,000 to Fight Oregon Measure 50</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/24/reynolds-american-adds-304000-to-fight-oregon-measure-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Hogan from The Oregonian reported today that: Reynolds American, the makers of Camel cigarettes, has contributed another $304,000 to the record-setting campaign against Measure 50, which would raise Oregon&#8217;s cigarette tax by 85 cents a pack.&#8221; Reynolds, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., has now contributed $4.6 million to the Oregonians Against The Blank Check campaign [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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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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