Tobacco

Tobacco, cigarette and e-cig category news for the convenience-store retail industry

Tobacco Category Digest

Tobacco

Congress Passes New S-CHIP Bill

Second veto promised; GOP proposal has no tobacco tax

Tobacco

Altria Lights Up Cigars

PM USA parent acquires John Middleton in "strategically compelling and financially attractive" deal

President won't accept health bill with tobacco tax increase, officials say

New York Governor Eliot L. Spitzer is backing away from a promised effort to collect taxes on the sale of cigarettes and gasoline by Native American retailers.

Includes $1-per-pack increase

Products

House passes revised S-CHIP bill; another veto expected

All of retailers supermarkets, c-stores participating

OK c-store owners seek to curb alleged abuses

Pelosi promises bill will go back to president

The U.S. House of Representatives failed to override President Bush's veto of the bill to reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

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