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ND anti-tobacco initiative petitions turned in
Category: Tobacco · State: North Dakota · Source: Associated Press
North Dakota is spending roughly a third of the money that it should to discourage tobacco use, say advocates of a ballot initiative that voters are likely to decide in November. The proposal's supporters turned in petitions to Secretary of State Al Jaeger's office on Monday that they said included the signatures of 15,667 North Dakota voters, or 22 percent more than the minimum of 12,844 needed to qualify for a vote. They collected the names in three months. "I think this was an easy measure because so few people said no," said former attorney general Heidi Heitkamp, who is chairwoman of the initiative campaign. "People were just more than willing to sign." The measure would establish a nine-member board that would be put in charge of developing a comprehensive program to discourage smoking, smokeless tobacco chewing and other forms of tobacco use.
Tobacco firms flex muscles in Oregon
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris delivered such a thumping to Oregon's proposed cigarette-tax increase Tuesday that the sound could be heard all the way in Washington, D.C.
Bush cites Oregon measure, says voters are sick of tax-and-spend
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Associated Press
An Oregon ballot measure entered the national debate over taxes and spending Tuesday as President Bush said the defeat of Measure 50 showed voters are sick of overspending by Democrats.
Tobacco-Tax Measure
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Wall Street Journal
Voters in Oregon defeated a ballot measure to fund a children's health-care program by boosting tobacco taxes, the third time an industry campaign has helped defeat new taxes to fund such programs -- and perhaps a signal to lawmakers in Washington regarding a similar plan to raise the federal tobacco tax.
An up and down night for ballot measures
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian
It took The Oregonian's crack number crunchers all of 13 minutes to declare Measure 49 passed and Measure 50 failed.
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