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Should Maine raise the tax on tobacco in order to fund health initiatives?

by WABI-TV5 News Desk - May 11th 2011 02:51am - Read more Question of the Day

Yes 49% (163 votes)
No 51% (168 votes)

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raise taxes on food for obese. save a life?

floyd merrill 05/11/2011 06:53 am

no they should ban smoking all together, but failing that thy should leave the smokers alone after all we have to tolarate gays and we don't like them much either

Doug Dividio 05/20/2011 04:41 pm

you that comment above is BS about gay's and no I'm not gay as far as raising tax for smoker's i do do that and no i don't agree with that either i mean we have paid ALOT for that and it's bull also obviously those who don't smoke don't realize that it's not that we chose to smoke and it's more than a habit.We can't afford more taxes and although we can't afford it the stress of it all we would come up with the money so where and go into debt more so no i DO NOT agree with raising taxes

Shaunna James 07/05/2011 07:04 am

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