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	<title>Georgians For a Healthy Future &#187; smoking</title>
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		<title>Kick Butts Day is March 21st</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bump It Up a Buck coalition to increase the cigarette tax in Georgia by $1 will participate in the first celebration of national Kick Butts Day to be held in Atlanta since 2008. A $1 increase in the cigarette tax would reduce smoking levels, improve health, and generate more than $340 million in revenue each year...]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Control Report Card:  Georgia Fails Nearly Every Category</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Georgia failed almost every category in the American Lung Association’s State of Tobacco Control 2010 report. These disappointing grades are due to the consistent failure to increase Georgia’s cigarette tax, inadequate funding for tobacco prevention programs and lack of coverage for quit smoking treatments and services for state workers and Medicaid recipients. ]]></description>
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		<title>Prevention and Public Health Fund at Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Zeldin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Prevention and Public Health Fund is designated for use in communities across the country to target key public health issues such as tobacco cessation and efforts to reduce obesity by encouraging better nutrition and increased physical activity.]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Tax Is a Win for Georgia</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Putnam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michelle Putnam

For those inclined to live under a rock, the state of Georgia is in a deep recession, with revenues steadily declining over the past year and showing no sign of recovery.  In Georgia, 20% of adults and 18% of high school students smoke, costing our $2 billion a year in smoking-related health problems.  Is there a magic pill that would solve both of these problems at once?  You bet there is.  I give you, the tobacco tax.]]></description>
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