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Cigarette taxes saved my kids’ lives

Maryland should again raise the cost of smoking. An Op-ed in the Baltimore Sun by Rev. Fred Weimert

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Support is growing…

Over 460 organizations have endorsed our Healthy Maryland Initiative proposal to increase the state

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New Fiscal Year Means Tax Hikes In Maryland

Taxes will jump from 15 percent of wholesale to 70 percent on "little cigars."

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Maryland law changes, tax hikes take effect

"Together, the new tax increase on little cigars and smokeless tobacco will save thousands of young

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GREAT PUBLIC HEALTH VICTORIES MARK THE 2012 GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSIONS

Statement by Vincent DeMarco, President, Maryland Health Care For All! Coalition Thanks to the

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Baltimore leaders, clergy push for budget fix

Faith community leaders said they support increasing the sales tax on little cigars and other

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Faith Leaders Want Budget Cuts Restored

Lawmakers are expected to return to Annapolis in mid-May to address the budget situation which also

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Religious leaders trying to prevent ‘doomsday’ in Maryland

More than 30 religious leaders called on Maryland's political leaders Monday to conduct a special

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Top Maryland Faith Leaders Call For Restoring Doomsday Cuts

...convene a Special Session to restore the budget cuts and to enact the life-saving tobacco tax

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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.