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Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

and Chuck Burson, who was formerly president of NAAG, now the Vice President Counsel ...

America's Highest Cigarette Tax in Mass.

Massachusetts smoke rs, already bracing for a 75-cents-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes that is making its way through the Legislature, may be in for another price shock this summer ...
Caron, a Democrat from Springfield who has tried unsuccessfully to block the discount prohibition and is now seeking a delay in enforcement ...
At a CVS Pharmacy in Dorchester yesterday, the price of a pack of Marlboros was $4 ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

Robert Kalell, a director in the Revenue Department's audit division, has the job of calculating the minimum retail price ...
At a CVS Pharmacy yesterday in Dorchester, for example, a pack of Marlboros was on sale for $3 ...
Starting July 1, the state intends to prohibit cigarette manufacturers from offering retail discounts that in recent months have averaged about 60 cents a pack ...

Double Danger For Big Tobacco

5 percent to 2 percent), and a markup for the retailer (25 percent ...
The New England Convenience Store Association, for example, says its members derive 33 percent of their revenue from cigarette sales, with cigarette buyers accounting for a large portion of other purchases as well ...
It may be a sign of how out of favor the industry is that even the free -market Bush Administration has failed to slow the case -- despite the fact that it was started by the Clinton White House and has cost $135 million to prepare ...
Assuming the Revenue Department's new policy becomes effective on July 1 and Philip Morris doesn't come up with an alternative discounting scheme, the price of a pack ...
The so-called fair-pricing law was intended to prevent a retailer from slashing his cigarette prices to drive competitors out of business ...

Showdown Over Tobacco Buyout Continues

Then again, if it were that easy, the quota buyout would have come from the House Agriculture Committee -- not Mr ...
According to a recent report from the Federal Trade Commission, the tobacco industry spent $3 ...
Big Tobacco has faced many legal challenges through the years but never one this daunting ...
At a CVS Pharmacy yesterday in Dorchester, for example, a pack of Marlboros was on sale for $3 ...
Supporting the bill is certainly a big shift for Altria, which spearheaded the industry's rigid opposition to FDA oversight in the late 1990s ...

Double Danger For Big Tobacco: $280B Racketeering Suit and FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products

Officials at the Department of Revenue say they have no secret agenda to drive up the price of cigarettes ...
Kalell said the average buy-down has increased from 10 cents to 20 cents a pack several years ago to an average of about 60 cents today ...
The government is seeking disgorgement of a brow-raising $280 billion -- almost the six defendant companies' entire profits during the five-decade period ...
It may be a sign of how out of favor the industry is that even the free -market Bush Administration has failed to slow the case -- despite the fact that it was started by the Clinton White House and has cost $135 million to prepare ...
The legislation would give the FDA oversight of the manufacturing of cigarettes and would enlarge the health warnings they carry ...

Group pushes youth anti-smoking amendment

James Tolbert, now a freshman at Central College in Iowa, joined the club as a sixth-grader in Port Charlotte and watched it grow to include nearly 100 members ...
Sure enough, in walks Nick Seth-Ward, a surfer with shaggy blond hair who started smoking his brother's mint-flavored cigarettes three years ago but recently quit, and Omar Delgado, who wears a black T-shirt painted ...
The trend in incoming middle school students worries some prevention workers ...
In Manatee County schools, for example, about 45 students were caught smoking on school grounds in 2002, compared with 127 students in the 2004 school year, said Janice Sumner, director of the Manatee County Drug Free Schools Alliance ...
We have a whole new generation of sixth-graders coming in who haven't heard the message," said Laura Corbin, Southwest Florida's Regional ...