Tax spurs repackaged tobacco products
Posted: November 18, 2009 at 4:28 a.m.
With a simple marketing twist, tobacco companies are avoiding hundreds of millions of dollars a year in taxes that are a part of President Barack Obama’s child-health law.
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Business, Pages 24 on 11/18/2009
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