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Tobacco Stories Posted in November 2007

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.

Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 · 8:59 AM ET

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.

Posted: Tue, Nov 13, 2007 · 8:12 AM ET

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.

Posted: Fri, Nov 9, 2007 · 8:58 AM ET

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.

Posted: Thu, Nov 8, 2007 · 8:26 AM ET

Oregon Election Results!

Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal

Measure 49 passes, Measure 50 does not.

Posted: Wed, Nov 7, 2007 · 9:07 AM ET

Votes light so far on weighty issues

Category: Property Rights · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal

Measures 49 and 50 put weighty issues on Tuesday's statewide ballot -- issues that long have aroused residents' passions.

Posted: Mon, Nov 5, 2007 · 8:26 AM ET

Big Tobacco plans to continue barrage of ads

Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal

Companies pay $12 million to try to stop Measure 50

Posted: Fri, Nov 2, 2007 · 9:13 AM ET

Tobacco campaign tops record $11 million

Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: The Oregonian

The tobacco money against Measure 50's proposed cigarette tax increase keeps piling in. Philip Morris has donated another $1.1 million to the campaign, putting total contributions to that effort over $11 million.

Posted: Thu, Nov 1, 2007 · 10:48 AM ET

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