Missouri
Missouri voted down an outrageous 90 cent tax on a pack of cigarettes. YAH!<br />
Maine
The Maine State Housing Authority is imposing a new smoke-free policy in all future units, making Maine the first state to require protection of tenants from secondhand smoke in new units.<br />
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Right pick on poor people who have no choice.<br type="_moz" />
Catching Up In Europe
From Freedom to Chose find out the latest attacks on smoking and drinking.<br type="_moz" />
Fairfax County, Virginia
<span class="BodyCopy">Fairfax County officials may consider requiring all county-employed smokers to enroll in wellness programs to snuff out their bad habit.<br />
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Show us a clinical study that proves smokers cost additional health care cost. Smoking, drinking and overeating is all legal and as long as it is get over it. Government has no right to modify behavior.<br type="_moz" />
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New Zealand
<p>There is a movement in New Zealand to charge $20.00 for a pack of cigarettes by 2016. Many disagree with this proposition, because life in New Zealand is extremely difficult. Malnourished, clinically depressed, and living a daily grind with no respite in sight, cigarettes are one of few pleasures in a life with little hope.<br />
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France
Francois Hollande, the new socialist president of France, is now going to impose a160-percent increase in the tax on beer. This is just one more example of a "nanny state" which will only lead to a thriving black market and a major blow to the hospitality industry. A very foolish move.<br />
Los Angeles
<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/28/local/la-me-soda-tax-20121029">Measure H,</a> a proposed tax on the city of El Monte’s ballot, includes within its reach beverages that contain any amount of fruit juice concentrate.<br />
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Is this the way we want to live in America, the land of the free and the brave? Why are we being reduced to 3 year olds who can’t possibly make our own decisions? We say NO to a nanny state!<br type="_moz" />
Letter To The Editor
Missouri, Proposition B would raise the tobacco tax more than five times the current tax. It would go from $1.70 to $9 per carton. Missouri does have a low tobacco tax, but a more than five times increase is obviously pure greed.<br />
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Missouri
<div>The usual suspects are supporting a Proposition to increase the tax on cigarettes by 90 cents per pack. The justification is also the same old tired argument.<br />
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Santa Alert
Pamela McColl a former smoker, spent $200,000 of her own money to self-publish her updated version of the classic poem mentioning "The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth. And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath".<br />
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Really woman, get a LIFE!<br type="_moz" />