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Md. tobacco tax will save lives
As Gov.Martin O'Malleysigns into law the revenue measure passed during the recent special session, most of the attention will be on the income tax changes in the bill. Also in the new law will be an historic and life-saving increase in our state's tax...Tags: Executive Branch, Government
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General Assembly raises income tax on top 14 percent
It took three carefully scripted days, but Maryland's ruling Democrats finally put in place the budget deal that eluded them in the waning hours of the state's regular session last month.
The revenue package approved by the House on Wednesday will...Tags: Interior Policy, Democratic Party, Budgets and Budgeting, Labor Legislation, Annapolis
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Another casualty of the Annapolis breakdown: Cigar, smokeless tobacco taxes
A special session of the legislature is definitely needed to prevent the disastrous "doomsday budget" from taking effect — but it is also needed to enact the life-saving tobacco tax increase, which like the proposed income tax increase failed to...Tags: Annapolis
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Gas companies need to come clean about fracking health risks
While the Pennsylvania law cited in your article "Doctors question fracking law" (April 20) "compels natural gas firms to turn over information about chemicals they use ... to health care professionals who ask," there seems nothing in it that would stop...Tags: Skin Cancer, Companies and Corporations
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Ban the sale of flavored cigars that target underage smokers
While Maryland pays more than $2 billion annually in tobacco-related health-care costs, the tobacco industry spends upward of $1 million an hour to market its products nationwide. Even though Congress banned flavored cigarettes in 2009, Big Tobacco...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Health and Safety at School, University of Maryland, College Park, New York City
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Letter: Maryland Republicans give appearance of 'blind allegiance' toward protecting tobacco industry
In a letter to the editor of the Laurel Leader, John O' Hara, who testified before the General Assembly on four tobacco-related bills, writes that he saw Republicans having a "blind allegiance" toward protecting the tobacco industry. If registered...Tags: Parties and Movements, John O'Hara, Elections, Maryland General Assembly, Republican Party
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DeMarco grateful for Senate action but wants more
Health advocate Vinny DeMarco was thrilled and delighted this week when the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee approved the most important part of his proposal to increase taxes on tobacco products other that cigarettes as part its budget package....Tags: Cancer, Martin O'Malley, Budgets and Budgeting
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Crying wolf in the State Center suit
Litigants in the case against the State Center development in Baltimore are decrying a bill that passed the House of Delegates setting out new rules for public-private partnerships in Maryland. At issue is a provision that allows a party in such a suit to...
Tags: Judges, Company Privatization, Peter G. Angelos, Rentals, Trials
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Don't be fooled: Smokeless tobacco is dangerous
I was dismayed by the letter written by Brad Rodu minimizing the devastating health consequences caused by using smokeless tobacco products ("All tobacco is not equally harmful," Jan. 24). Dr. Rodu is a dentist and scientist at the James Graham Brown...Tags: Google Inc., Cancer, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, American Lung Association, Tobacco Addiction
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All tobacco is not equally harmful
Your recent editorial endorsed a tax increase on tobacco products other than cigarettes, but it was based on some sweeping statements that are not scientifically accurate or credible ("The 'other' tobacco tax," Jan 20). You stated: "Tobacco is linked...Tags: Cancer, Health and Safety at School, American Lung Association, General Practitioners, Health and Safety at School
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The 'other' tobacco tax
Over the past decade, Maryland has gradually raised its tax on cigarettes to the current $2 per pack, and the results have been striking. Fewer people smoke cigarettes today than before the tax was implemented, and that's particularly true among high...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Mouth, Cancer, American Lung Association, Annapolis
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Cigar tax increase would reduce teen use
In a recent Baltimore Sun article about our proposed tax increase for cigars and smokeless tobacco designed to reduce teen use of these products ("Group pushing tobacco tax says it's a popular idea," Dec. 20), Bill Spann of the cigar industry makes the...Tags: Tobacco Addiction
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