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March 09, 2010
Raising the state's cigarette tax would save lives, discourage children from taking up the habit and shift more of the estimated $1 billion in annual tobacco-related disease costs back to smokers while providing millions of dollars in new state revenue, officials said Monday.
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March 08, 2010
Representatives of the South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative and doctors gather at the Medical University of South Carolina on Monday to talk about increasing the tax and the need for money for tobacco-use prevention.
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March 08, 2010
Louis Eubank, executive director of the South Carolina Tobacco Collaborative, joins doctors at the Medical University to urge lawmakers to increase the state tax on cigarettes.
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March 04, 2010
Today, Mikell, 31, hopes lawmakers will get serious about passing an increase in the state's cigarette tax. The revenue - potentially $145 million - would be used to offset budget cuts to Medicaid programs and services that Mikell and other disabled South Carolinians rely on.
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March 04, 2010
Add Cayce and West Columbia - but not Irmo - to the list of Midlands communities that ban smoking in stores, offices and other workplaces.
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February 25, 2010
By a 17-7 vote, the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday killed a proposal that would have raised the tax to 50 cents a pack...The committee then moved on to discuss a fee of 6.4 cents per cigarette as a user fee.
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February 25, 2010
Legislators in South Carolina have approved a 30-cent-a-pack increase in cigarette taxes. After rejecting the proposal and other increase efforts earlier Wednesday, they gave the measure their approval by voice vote.
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February 17, 2010
West Columbia took the initial step Tuesday toward joining other Midlands communities that ban smoking in stores and offices. A divided City Council ended its 18-month holdout and gave preliminary approval to limits weaker than those elsewhere.
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February 17, 2010
GOV. MARK Sanford - like the overwhelming majority of South Carolinians - believes that our state's cigarette tax should be higher. But it remains the very lowest in the nation because Mr. Sanford refuses to sign a cigarette tax increase unless it is offset by an equal cut to some other tax. Compared to Attorney General Henry McMaster, Mr. Sanford is a tax-happy liberal.
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February 13, 2010
Five candidates for governor disagreed on whether to raise the state's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax - and how to spend the money - at a Friday debate.
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