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Article: Group pushes cigarette tax: Dollar-a-pack increase gains support to pay for expanded health care.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
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- November 21, 2006
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Byline: Jennifer Skalka
Nov. 21--With a Democratic administration set to take office in Annapolis, health care advocates are making a renewed push for a $1-per-pack tobacco tax increase that they say would enable the state to expand coverage to 62,000 uninsured Marylanders. Nine of 11 new state senators are partnering with nonprofit groups, Comptroller-elect Peter Franchot and Attorney General-elect Douglas F. Gansler to lobby for approval of the tax increase, which could raise $200 million the first year out, supporters say. "Where there's a will, there's a way, and I'm here to tell you there are nine new senators, at least, who have that will," ...