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Momentum for tobacco tax increase builds

A push by public health advocates to increase the tax on cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco

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Proposal to raise MD cigar tax attacked: Denounced as a business burden

The governor’s support gives the tax a stronger chance of ending up in the final budget, though

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The ‘other’ tobacco tax

Editorial View: Time for Maryland to do the right thing and tax cigars, snuff and other forms of

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The Baltimore Sun’s 2012 legislative agenda: Cigar tax

According to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene¿s Youth Tobacco Survey, nearly as many

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Letter to the editor: Cigar tax increase would reduce teen use

Baltimore Sun January 4, 2012 In a recent Baltimore Sun article about our proposed tax increase for

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Group pushing tobacco tax says it’s a popular idea

Two-thirds of Maryland voters support increasing the state’s tobacco tax, according to a new poll

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Group will push for increased levy on cigars, other tobacco products

Although cigarette smoking in Maryland has declined by 32 percent in the past decade, DeMarco

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Bid afoot in Maryland to raise tax on cigars and more

A survey of Maryland voters performed this fall by the polling firm Opinion Works found that 72

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Advocates use special session to get in lawmakers’ ears

“For right now, the purpose of this launch is to let the public know that we’re out there again

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MD Health Group Pushes for Tobacco Tax Increase

If one public health group has its way, the next time you light up in Maryland it could cost you an

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Coalition to push for $1 a pack increase

The group is headed by Vincent DeMarco, includes AARP Maryland, MedChi and the NAACP among others.

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Another hike In MD tobacco tax likely

While some may oppose a tax increase simply on principle, it’s hard to argue against something

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Campaign starts for another $1-a-pack tax hike on cigarettes

The folks who campaigned for the new 9% alcohol sales tax and the $2-a-pack cigarette tax are

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Push on to raise Maryland cigarette tax to $3 a pack

In addition to raising the price of cigarettes, Mr. DeMarco said, his group’s proposal also would

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One Maryland group wants to add another dollar to the state cigarette tax

The present tobacco tax goes into the general fund, but Demarco will propose this new tax to be

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A new tobacco tax?

The same organization which successfully pushed for a 50 percent hike in the state’s sales tax on

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Group working for new Maryland tobacco tax

If the tax is passed the group wants the money to go towards tobacco prevention programs and to

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Health advocates seek increase in tobacco tax

"Only when the cost of a pack of cigarettes includes its healthcare costs to society will a smoker

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Tobacco, alcohol tax hikes good for Maryland

Marylanders can be very proud that our governor and General Assembly stood up to the powerful