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Tobacco trial could take months |
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Source:http://www.timesunion.com/,2010-09-07
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A billion-dollar tobacco-related trial is scheduled to open in St. Louis in January, and court officials have begun the process of finding jurors. It isn't easy — the trial could take six to seven months.
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NY cigarette tax plans raise reservation tensions |
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Source:http://www.timesunion.com/,2010-09-03
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As New York Indian Nation leaders battle in courtrooms to preserve their tax-free cigarette market, tensions are rising on reservations, where the state's renewed efforts to tax sales to non-Native customers is viewed as yet another attack on Native American rights.
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New Study Confirms $1 Cigarette Tax Increase Will Produce Large, Sustained Revenue Needed to Cut North Carolina Budget Deficit |
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Source:http://www.sunherald.com/,2010-05-20
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As the legislative session begins, a report released today by a tobacco policy expert at the University of Illinois at Chicago confirms that a significant cigarette tax increase in North Carolina will produce a large, sustained increase in state tobacco tax revenues. Several states, including South Carolina, have recently raised tobacco taxes to deal with budget shortfalls.
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Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) Presents at Credit Suisse Investor Field Visit in Germany |
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Source:http://www.sunherald.com/,2010-05-15
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Philip Morris International Inc.’s (NYSE / Euronext Paris: PM) Managing Director Germany & Austria, Raman Berent, will today provide investors with a review of Germany’s cigarette market dynamics at the Credit Suisse Investor Field Visit in Berlin, Germany.
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Critics push state to spend tobacco money on prevention, control |
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Source:http://blog.mlive.com/,2010-05-10
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Ten years after major tobacco companies agreed to pay about $8 billion annually for 25 years to Michigan and other states, some states aren't using the money as it was intended, health experts say.
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