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U.S. Senators Call for Tobacco-Free Baseball

Health officials in Texas and St. Louis want tobacco out of World Series, MLB

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Oct 18, 2011

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With the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals set to begin the 2011 World Series Wednesday night, four U.S. Senators called on the Major League Baseball Players Association to protect players' health and the well-being of millions of young fans by agreeing to a contractual ban on tobacco use at games.  

Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct) urged in a letter to Players Association executive director Michael Weiner that the ban be effective in the 2012 baseball contract. The senators noted that the World Series is likely to be watched by an estimated 15 million viewers, many of them children.

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Low-Tax Missouri Can Lift Itself from Bottom of the Pack

Voters could get chance to raise cigarette taxes, fund education and tobacco prevention

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Sep 23, 2011

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Missouri’s meager, 17-cents-per-pack cigarette tax — the lowest in the nation — could be raised by 80 cents, reducing smoking and generating  $300 million to help fund public education, state universities and programs to help smokers quit and keep kids from starting.

It’s truly a win-win for the state.

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posted September 23, 2011

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