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American cigarette manufacturers have filed a lawsuit against the FDA.
The largest US tobacco companies filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Federal Office of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
read more ...05/04/15
Interesting facts about cigarettes, countries - tobacco leaders.
Every minute in the world are sold about 8-10 million cigarettes and daily 13-15 billion cigarettes.
read more ...04/01/15
Anti-smoking campaigns run to extremes.
It is strange to what can bring the foolishness of anti-smoking crusaders in their attempts to impose all the rules of a healthy lifestyle, even if they lead to a violation of all norms, artistic freedom and civil society.
read more ...03/03/15
NY Cigarette Taxes May Double

12/18/99

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's cigarette tax would climb to a nation-high $1.11 a pack, with those revenues and the state's share of tobacco settlement funds being used to create new health insurance programs for the poor, state leaders said.

About 1 million New York adults believed to be unable to pay for health insurance will be eligible for state-subsidized coverage under various programs under a deal announced Friday. The new programs are part of an agreement among Gov. George Pataki, state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno to extend and revamp the state's health care financing system. If ratified by the state Legislature, the extended health care system will be in effect until June 30, 2003. Silver said he may bring his members back next week to pass the health care bill. Bruno said he probably wouldn't call his members back until the regular 2000 session of the Legislature begins on Jan. 5. The current Health Care Reform Act, adopted in 1996, expires Dec. 31. The cigarette tax increase was the centerpiece of the new system outlined by the leaders Friday. New York last raised its cigarette tax on June 1, 1993, to 56-cents-a-pack, then the highest in the nation. But since then, New York's charge has dropped to 16th highest in the country. By adopting a 55-cent-a-pack increase, New York would again be the No. 1 cigarette taxing state. The current leaders are Hawaii and Alaska, which each charge $1 a pack in taxes. The cigarette tax hike will raise an average of about $400 million a year.

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