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Taxes hit French tobacco sales
BBC News - Jul 27, 2004
The cost of a pack of cigarettes has surged 30% since the anti-smoking campaign began in October last year. The average cost of a packet is now around five ...
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The Price of Smoking
Washington Post - Feb 22, 2006
When Maryland raised its tax in 1999 -- to 66 cents a pack from 36 cents -- an estimated 20000 youngsters either quit smoking or never started; presumably, ...
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Insurer totes up costs of smoking
$2.75 - Minneapolis Star-Tribune - NewsBank - May 12, 2005
Blue Cross officials said their studies show that a $1-a-pack increase would keep 100000 Minnesotans from smoking. The study, based on 2002 cost data, ...
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Health minister targets youth smokers
Jerusalem Post - May 31, 2006
Sixty percent of nonsmokers and 17.5% of smokers agreed that cigarette taxes should be raised so a cigarette pack costs NIS 30 to NIS 40 as in the US. ...
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Initiative would put the squeeze on smokers
San Diego Union - Tribune - San Diego Union Tribune - Oct 19, 2006
Proposition 86 would increase the excise tax on a pack of cigarettes by $2.60, ... But the initiative's backers say smoking costs California $16 billion a ...
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Shock pictures to scare smokers
guardian.co.uk - Oct 23, 2004
Ireland, which has already banned smoking in public places, and Belgium are planning to ... Cigarettes, which cost as little as £2 a pack in Luxembourg, ...
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