Sentences with phrase «about cigarette taxes»

«Our approach is a different way to think about cigarette taxes,» says senior author Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., professor of Pediatrics at U-M's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and who is with U-M's schools of public health and public policy and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.

Not exact matches

The cigarette tax in Nebraska is just $ 0.64 per pack, about three cents per cigarette.

In exchange, the Oneidas will give 25 percent of its casino's net revenue to the state, agree to a permanent cap of about 25,000 acres of land, and apply sales tax on cigarettes and gasoline.

In the past five years, the state's cigarette tax collections have dropped by about $ 400 million, according to data and estimates from the office of state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

Here's Gov. David Paterson speaking today at the Saratoga Racetrack, where he was on hand for the Travers, about the impending start of collection of sales taxes on cigarettes sold on Indian Land, which is slated to begin next week.

They talked about a number of issues facing the territory, including the economic impact his people have on the state, the future of gaming in New York, and the ongoing dispute between the nation and state government over the collection of cigarette taxes.

The Governor also talks about the proposed increase in the cigarette tax as an indirect way to plug the budget to help pay for road funding, early childhood education funding, as well as whether the Superintendent of Public Instruction will become an appointed position.

«Not only that, I wasn't happy about paying taxes that go towards people who are sitting at home all day and making no contribution to society — especially overweight people who spend all their benefits on junk food and cigarettes.

This move comes about one week after the city's new cigarette tax went into effect, adding $ 2 to the cost per pack.

In 2007, FreedomWorks boasted about the effectiveness of a $ 12 million ad blitz by the tobacco companies aimed at killing a cigarette tax proposal in Oregon.

A quick Internet search reveals statements by Conner in a letter to the editor of a Delaware newspaper, complaining about higher taxes on cigarettes: The government «continue [s] to promulgate the outright lie of the dangers of secondhand smoke and the fictitious statistic that 400,000 people die each year in the U.S. from smoking.»

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