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The traders have been demanding that the manufacturers effectively reduce their prices on cigarette and other tobacco products in Kerala state, said T. Cigarette stocks in shops in a southern Indian state dwindled Monday after wholesale traders stopped selling them to retailers because of a dispute with manufacturers over profit sharing. Naseeruddin said wholesale traders were facing severe hardship as their profit margins were only 3.25 rupees (less than one cent) on cartons of cigarettes...

The project, which promotes education and prevention, is funded through a cigarette tax that California voters adopted in 1988. County supervisors also required tobacco retailers in unincorporated areas to begin paying an annual $350 license in September 2005, hoping to prevent minors from buying tobacco products. County health and law enforcement officials enforce the law by conducting decoy programs to find out whether retailers ensure that customers are of legal age, Schnepper said....

Our state is also the fourth-largest tobacco-producing state in the nation, and the second-largest tobacco manufacturing state, with activity concentrated primarily in the Richmond and Danville areas. Click the tabs below to view the top videos in our different categories. Try our dining, travel, entertainment and gardening newsletters. Click the "More" tab to view our full video selection. Published May 12 2007 Q: How big is the tobacco industry in Virginia? A: According to the most...

It gives more money to colleges and universities, prisons, the Medicaid health care program, and enough cash to hire 400 more child welfare caseworkers. The signings capped off a four-month session that Daniels said would result in dramatic change and progress for Indiana. It also steers $300 million this year toward property tax relief for homeowners, whose 2007 bills are projected to rise an average of 24 percent statewide. Homeowners are expected to pay their property tax bills in full...