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Increase in Cig Taxes May Lower Bond Returns

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 ...
States from Connecticut to Hawaii have considered tobacco levies and other ``sin taxes'' on gambling and alcohol to help eliminate record budget gaps ...
6 million packs were sold in the month, a 47 percent drop from July 2001 ...
The settlement was reached with the top four cigarette makers, including Philip Morris Inc ...
The forecast assumed tax increases also would be enacted in California -- where the Assembly yesterday rejected a $3-per-pack tax -- and in two smaller, unidentified states this year ...

States Lose Taxes From Web Cigarette Sales

Rather than take their share in annual installments, some municipalities have sold bonds that will be paid ...
By 2005, Internet tobacco sales in the United States could exceed $5 billion and states could lose about $1 ...
The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...

Text of Clinton's Speech on Tobacco

One Web site told buyers ``We do not report to tax authorities in ANY state ...
and Chuck Burson, who was formerly president of NAAG, now the Vice President Counsel ...
If we have 40 out of 50 states with state budget deficits, sin taxes are a popular place to go ...
The officials can then pursue the buyers to make sure they pay local sales taxes ...

Vets Fight to Retain Smoking Benefits

The cost to states can run into the millions, according to the report ...
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 ...
In this case, the administration's argument mirrors what the tobacco industry long has argued in court: individual smokers choose to smoke and therefore are responsible for their health problems ...
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 ...
A DRI-Wefa forecast released in January was based on expectations of fewer state tax increases, said Jim Diffley, group managing director at the Eddystone, Pennsylvania, firm ...

Act of Smoking as Addictive as Nicotine

He leaned forward and placed his mouth on the filter of a lit cigarette encased in a network of glass tubes and wire ...
The industry has been asked to pay billions of dollars in medical costs because, essentially, those with smoking-related illnesses did not begin smoking entirely by choice ...
States are losing millions in tax dollars as more people buy cigarettes from online vendors who routinely ignore a federal law requiring them to report sales to local regulators, a new report says ...

France Likely to Classify Alcohol and Tobacco as "Dangerous Drugs"

Calls to several Internet cigarette vendors advertising ``tax free cigarettes'' were not returned to The Associated Press on Monday ...
Just before he stormed beaches in the South Pacific during World War II, Robert Christian remembers his superiors calling out: "Smoke 'em if you got 'em!" Christian, who had never used cigarettes before joining the Navy, became a heavy smoker ...
Some 5 million French men and women can be classified as excessive drinkers and 2 million as alcohol ics ...
DRI-Wefa performs cigarette consumption forecasts for bond underwriters ...
Doing so will release vast sums of government money to suppress the consumption of two legal but harmful substances that ...

U.S. Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism

The forecasting firm cut its cigarette consumption estimate for this year by 2 billion, to 403 billion, and for next year by 5 ...
Smugglers with ties to terrorist groups are acquiring millions of dollars from illegal cigarette sales and funneling the cash to organizations such as al Qaeda and Hezbollah, federal law enforcement officials say, prompting a nationwide crackdown on black market tobacco ...
They argue that the decision to smoke is a free choice and has nothing to do ...

New Law Would Ban Smoking

They argue that the decision to smoke is a free choice and has nothing to do ...
The cost to states can run into the millions, according to the report ...
The forecast assumed tax increases also would be enacted in California -- where the Assembly yesterday rejected a $3-per-pack tax -- and in two smaller, unidentified states this year ...
Federal law requires Internet cigarette sellers to provide state revenue officials with names and addresses of their customers ...

Gene Linked to Nicotine Addiction

They say the government made cigarettes part of military life and those who became addicted while in the service-- most as teenagers--deserve government-subsidized medical treatment ...
Sources at the Health Ministry say that despite fierce and voluble industry opposition, Jospin has decided to include drinking and smoking in the judgment of a Cabinet task ...
With huge profits -- and low penalties for arrest and conviction -- illicit cigarette trafficking now has begun to rival drug trafficking as a funding choice for terrorist groups, said William Billingslea, an ATF senior intelligence analyst who has studied the issue extensively ...

Supreme Court's Decision in Massachusetts Advertising Case

Just before he stormed beaches in the South Pacific during World War II, Robert Christian remembers his superiors calling out: "Smoke 'em if you got 'em!" Christian, who had never used cigarettes before joining the Navy, became a heavy smoker ...
Sources at the Health Ministry say that despite fierce and voluble industry opposition, Jospin has decided to include drinking and smoking in the judgment of a Cabinet task ...