Illinois lawmakers look to raise cigarette tax again
Saturday, April 11, 2009
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- One of Bill McCloskey's gas stations used to sell 110,000 packs of cigarettes a month before a $2 Cook County sales tax kicked in three years ago. Now it sells 17,000.
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