Monthly Archive for Tobacco
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.
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.
Oregon Election Results!
Category: Tobacco · State: Oregon · Source: Statesman Journal
Measure 49 passes, Measure 50 does not.
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.
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
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.
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