Missouri judge weighing cigarette tax hike ballot proposal

Monday, August 22, 2016

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Lawyers working to keep a measure to raise Missouri's lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to benefit early childhood education on the Nov. 8 ballot attempted to fend off three lawsuits filed against the proposal during a Friday court hearing.

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