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Clinton Seeks Hike in Cigarette Tax

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From Times Wire Reports

President Clinton proposed a 25-cents-a-pack increase in the federal tax on cigarettes and a method of fining tobacco companies for failing to reduce youth smoking. The measures will be included in Clinton’s proposed budget for fiscal 2001, which will be released Monday. The GOP-led Congress killed a major anti-smoking measure in June 1998 and rejected his call for a 55-cents-a-pack increase in the federal tax on cigarettes last year.

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