A Maryland health group is planning to push for a $1 increase in the state’s tobacco tax. The Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative says it will launch the campaign next week in an effort to build public support for increasing the ...

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UPPER MARLBORO — Nine people have been charged with smuggling illegal cigarettes into Maryland. Nearly 15,000 packs of contraband cigarettes were seized as part of the investigation. Officials say the indictments announced Thursday in Prince George’s County are part of ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge peppered a government lawyer with questions Wednesday expressing doubts about whether the Food and Drug Administration can force tobacco companies to post graphic images on their cigarette packages showing the health effects of smoking. In ...

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WASHINGTON — A key measure of wholesale inflation rose in July by the most in six months. The measure, called core wholesale inflation, excludes volatile food and energy prices. It surged 0.4 percent last month. But most economists say they ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tobacco companies want a judge to put a stop to new graphic cigarette labels that include the sewn-up corpse of a smoker and pictures of diseased lungs, saying they unfairly urge adults to shun their legal products ...

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CINCINNATI — The free-speech rights of tobacco companies are improperly restricted by a federal law giving the Food and Drug Administration the power to impose graphic warnings about the dangers of smoking and regulate how tobacco companies market and advertise ...

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WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia exercised a rarely used power last fall to let Philip Morris USA and three other big tobacco companies delay making multimillion-dollar payments for a program to help people quit smoking. Scalia, a cigarette smoker ...

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced preliminary findings in its investigation into the cause of the fire that engulfed several buildings in the area known as "The Block."

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ANNAPOLIS — A report released by several public health organizations Wednesday ranked Maryland’s funding of its anti-tobacco program 34th in the country. According to the report, Maryland currently puts $4.3 million a year toward tobacco prevention, a 78 percent decrease ...

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