I was dismayed by the letter written by Brad Rodu minimizing the devastating health consequences caused by using smokeless tobacco products (“All tobacco is not equally harmful,” Jan. 24). Dr. Rodu is a dentist and scientist at the James Graham …

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Patricia Haddad, D-Somerset. The governor’s budget includes revenue projected from new taxes on candy and soda, and higher taxes on cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco. Those taxes haven’t received much support, she said. “You’ll see changes …

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“For me, if this tax passes through I’ll start buying my tobacco from Pennsylvania or West Virginia so I think it’s a bad idea honestly,” says Abuzayyad. The tax would apply to cigars, smokeless tobacco products and non-cigarette tobacco items. Delegates …

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O’Malley also has proposed aligning the state’s cigarette tax with other tobacco products, such as cigars and smokeless tobacco. The proposal would raise taxes on those products from 15 percent of wholesale to 66 percent, which would raise an estimated $19 million.

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Williams Sr., a former tobacco magnate who now heads Star Scientific Inc. According to Forbes.com, Star Scientific “is engaged in the development of dissolvable smokeless tobacco products that deliver fewer carcinogenic toxins through the utilization of …

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