campaign for a healthy colorado
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Tobacco tax backers ready to go
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Backers of a proposed Colorado constitutional amendment to raise taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products are beginning their efforts with $850,000 in the bank as they seek more funds while they promote the measure. Taxes on a pack of cigarettes would triple in January, if Colorado voters approve the measure placed on the Nov.…
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Colorado to decide whether to triple cigarette tax
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Colorado voters will decide in November whether to triple cigarette taxes after tobacco sales rose for the first time since the last state tax increase in 2004. An initiative certified Monday for the November ballot would raise the state tax from 84 cents to $2.59 per pack starting Jan. 1. That’s nearly a dollar more than…
