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November 14, 2012
A new push is starting to make cigarettes even more expensive in Maryland.
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett heads a list of VIPs who will join the Maryland “Health Care for All” Coalition today in Annapolis to call for another one-dollar increase in Maryland’s cigarette tax.
A coalition spokesman says three cigarette-tax hikes in the last decade have saved as many as 70-thousand lives.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers also raised the tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes.
Last modified: November 15, 2012
