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| Thursday, April 17, 2008 | |
| Tobacco Litigation Court awards Rosenblatts $218M for work in overturned smokers' class action Billy Shields - floridabiz.com (Daily Business Review) Miami-Dade Circuit Judge David C. Miller awarded $218 million in legal fees Tuesday to Stanley and Susan Rosenblatt for years of work they put into now-defunct class action litigation against the nation's biggest cigarette markers. |
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| Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | |
| Gov. Crist Against $1 Tax Hike On Cigarettes AP A $1 per-pack cigarette tax increase won approval in a state Senate committee Tuesday, but the panel may just be blowing smoke. The increase is a long way from passage, and Gov. Charlie Crist would likely extinguish the idea anyway. |
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| Bid to raise cigarette taxes gets legislative boost Josh Hafenbrack - (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Sun-Sentinel A long-shot bid to raise Florida's cigarette tax by $1 got a bipartisan boost from a Senate healthcare committee today -- raising the issue's profile with less than weeks left in the legislative session. |
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| Instant Editorial: Set fire to Florida's cigarette tax Deron Snyder - Ft. Myers (FL) News-Press The state cigarette tax is a measly 34 cents a pack, compared to the national average of about $1.11 per pack. Only six states have a lower rate than Florida. . . . |
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| Florida looks to raise cigarette taxes $1 per pack THOMAS R. COLLINS Palm Beach Post Staff Writer - Palm Beach (FL) Post A bid to increase the state's tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1 won approval at its first committee hearing in the Senate on Tuesday by a 4-1 vote. |
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| Cigarette tax hike in Florida apparently dead JOSH HAFENBRACK - (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Sun-Sentinel On the same day supporters of hiking Florida's cigarette tax by $1 a pack got a long-coveted bipartisan boost from a Senate healthcare panel, the effort ran into a major obstacle: Gov. Charlie Crist. |
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| Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | |
| Police: Toddler ate cigarette butts after mom passed out Tiffany Garland - WTVT myfox Tampa Bay Channel 5 A Tampa woman is facing child abuse charges after neighbors say they found her young daughter wandering around on a balcony eating cigarette butts. |
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| Crist will not support cigarette tax increase AP A measure in the Legislature would boost the tax on a pack of smokes from 34 cents to $1.34, and was scheduled for a hearing Tuesday in the Senate Health Policy Committee. |
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