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Nanny State Runs Amok With City's Cigarette Tax
Submitted by Derek Henson on Mon, 2009-06-08 16:00
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?Next month, Mayor Gavin Newsom plans to ask the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to impose an excise tax of 33 cents on every pack of cigarettes sold locally, justifying it as a way of forcing smokers to pay for cleaning The City's streets of unsightly cigarette debris.?
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