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		<title>Don&#8217;t Put That in Your Pipe and Smoke it</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2009/11/20/tobacco-tax-avoidance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanbreck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Apuzzo, of the Associated Press reported on a tax loophole that many Big Tobacco manufactures quickly jumped on to reduce their tax base. By cleverly changing product marketing they are effectively dodging taxes that would have gone to support the cost of children&#8217;s health insurance. It didn&#8217;t take long for many makers of tobacco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Way to Go California &#8211; 1 800 No Butts at Your Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanbreck</dc:creator>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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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>New Report on Global Tobacco Control Efforts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kabuki</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK &#8212; WHO today released new data concerning tobacco control. The data show that while progress has been made, not a single country fully implements all key tobacco control measures, and outlined an approach that governments can adopt to prevent tens of millions of premature deaths by the middle of this century. In a [...]]]></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>Mississippi is 27th for Anti-Tobacco Money</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/12/13/mississippi-is-27th-for-anti-tobacco-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once among the nation&#8217;s leaders for anti-smoking campaigns for youth and teens, Mississippi now ranks 27th among states that spend money on tobacco prevention, a new report says. The report released Wednesday also found that tobacco companies spend $183 million a year on marketing in Mississippi, almost 23 times the state funding for tobacco prevention. [...]]]></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>
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		<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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