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Small retailers don’t want tobacco tax hike (access required)

Posted: 7:40 pm Wed, March 7, 2012
By Alexander Pyles
Daily Record Business Writer

ANNAPOLIS – Raising tobacco taxes in Maryland may only force smokers across state lines, where neighboring states and Washington, D.C., impose lower levies, a lobbyist for small retailers told a Senate panel Wednesday. Senate Bill 526 would raise taxes on a pack of cigarettes by $1 — from $2 to $3 — and also raise the ...

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