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Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...
Even a small drop in smoking rates may increase the risk for investors who've bought bonds that are backed by payments to state and local governments from tobacco companies ...
Rather than take their share in annual installments, some municipalities have sold bonds that will be paid off ...
DRI-Wefa performs cigarette consumption forecasts for bond underwriters ...
This may just be the beginning of series of revisions'' to DRI-Wefa's cigarette consumption forecasts, said Josh Gonze, a money manager at Thornburg Investment Management Co ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

Without this year's tax increases, as many as 20 billion more cigarettes would have been consumed by the end of next year, he estimated ...
This may just be the beginning of series of revisions'' to DRI-Wefa's cigarette consumption forecasts, said Josh Gonze, a money manager at Thornburg Investment Management Co ...
The payments, mandated by a 1998 legal settlement, are based on annual sales of cigarettes in the U ...

Young Native Americans Against Smoking

Tribal elders, some from as far away as Wisconsin, and tribe members whose health has been ravaged by smoking talked with ...
regalia with an educational message about the consequences of smoking ...
Its latest projection reflected tax increases in Pennsylvania and other states ...
The event, sponsored by a recently formed organization called Native Americans Stopping Tobacco in Youth, or NASTY, began Friday and continues from 9 a ...
The gathering, less formal than a powwow, combines singing, dancing, drumming, traditional American Indian food and colorful ...

Some PA Retailers Selling Tobacco to Minors

The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...
The good news is retailers in Montgomery County are getting better about refusing to sell cigarettes, chewing tobacco and other nicotine products to minors ...
DRI-Wefa performs cigarette consumption forecasts for bond underwriters ...
regalia with an educational message about the consequences of smoking ...

Editorial: Warning, Lifestyle May Be Hazardous to Your Children

can no longer walk because of her weakened condition and takes oxygen 24 hours a day ...
Those are the risks that come from drinking too much alcohol , and that means too much beer or too much wine or too much of the hard stuff ...
What's ironic is that states that have already securitized their payments don't care about damaging cigarette sales because they've already collected their money,'' Gonze said ...