The tax on food got lower, while the cigarette tax went up. In the end, the cigarette tax was hiked 42 cents a pack to 60 cents a pack with the extra two cents going to trauma-care centers. Bredesen wanted to hike the cigarette tax by 40 cents a pack to help fund his education program. The legislature also reduced the sales tax on food from 6 percent to 5.5 percent and passed measures to lower taxes for some Tennesseans. So much tax money poured into state coffers this year that the...

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Pennsylvania already taxes cigarettes, but is the only state in the union that doesn t tax other tobacco products, such as pipe and rolling tobacco, chew and cigars. Pennsylvania already taxes cigarettes, but is the only state in the union that doesn t tax other tobacco products, such as pipe and rolling tobacco, chew and cigars. Pennsylvania already taxes cigarettes, but is the only state in the union that doesn t tax other tobacco products, such as pipe and rolling tobacco, chew and...

The Partnership was created later as an pilot program using separate payments from cigarette makers. Mississippi in 1997 settled its lawsuit against the tobacco industry, which was filed to recover public costs of treating sick smokers. The Supreme Court, in its 6-to-one ruling, upheld a December 2006 order from a Jackson County chancery judge, who said only the Legislature could appropriate money to tobacco cessation programs. The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, which went out of...

For the 1,000-member Squaxin Island tribe, expanding its tobacco industry outside of the state of Washington is an important step to diversify its economy beyond gambling. Under a legal exemption, tribes that sell cigarettes they manufacture themselves don't have to affix the state's cigarette tax - currently $20. Terry Reid, director of the tobacco prevention control program with the state Department of Health, said the state recognizes the right of tribes to include cigarettes as part of...

Bonnie Herzog, who follows tobacco companies for Citigroup, wrote in a note to investors Monday that the case cut off one defense tobacco companies were using to defend themselves against class-action cases over light cigarettes. The Supreme Court ruled against tobacco giant Philip Morris, which had argued that lawsuits against the company over light cigarettes belonged in the federal courts, not in front of state judges. Plaintiffs in those cases, which affect Philip Morris and other big...