Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican and a former tobacco lobbyist long opposed to raising Mississippi’s cigarette tax, relented in the face of slumping budget revenues and signed the state’s first increase in nearly a quarter century. The state’s 18-cents-a-pack excise tax had not changed since 1985.
On Friday, it rises to 68 cents a pack. Mississippi [...]
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