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CHATHAM COUNTY, N.C. -
Hundreds of workers from North Carolina cigarette factories owned by Reynolds American Inc. plan to protest the possibility of higher cigarette taxes.
The Winston-Salem-based company is paying to send busloads of employees to the General Assembly in Raleigh on Tuesday.
Spokeswoman Maura Payne said the second-largest U.S. tobacco company is paying its employees as if they were at work.
The company is trying to prevent lawmakers from raising the state's excise tax on cigarettes to help close a spending gap of more than $4 billion.
Gov. Beverly Perdue proposed increasing the tax by $1 per pack. House and Senate budget plans didn't include that proposal. Congress this year raised the federal cigarette tax by 62 cents a pack.
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By Nancy U on 06/17 11:01 AM
Let us tax cigarettes, alcohol, AND SUGAR!
By Holly McQuinn on 06/17 09:41 AM
I smoke and know all the health risk involved. I would never want anyone in my family to sue the cigarette companies. It is time to tax and sue the alcohol beverage companies. What about all the deaths caused by alcohol. The reason alocohol isn't taxed higher and the companies sued, is due to the fact that most doctors , attorneys , politicians , funeral directors etc. consume a lot of alcohol. Where is the FDA in alcohol poisoning?? Leave smokers alone and stop the laws involvement. All lawyers lets get some legal action against all the alcohol companies.
By Kristie Lee on 06/16 06:45 PM
I work for a company owned by Reynolds American. I was there today participating in the march to protest the tax increase on cigarettes. The cigarette industry just went through the new tax increase from the Feds. Why add more?!? Doesn't good ol' Bev realize that North Carolina is the Tobacco State!? Tobacco money pays my bills, puts food on my table, and will put my child through college. People have the God given right to purchase cigarettes and smoke if they want to. But again, good ol' Bev is taking that away from us beginning January 1, 2010. She is hurting the economy in NC a heck of a lot more than she is helping it! We should ask the question of her - what does more taxes mean to you Bev? Losing YOUR job!?!?
By Paul Terrell III-33rd State House candidate on 06/16 02:38 PM
Haven't the tobacco workers been punished enough? The Tobacco corporations already pay out Billions of dollars to governmenrts and organizations. What is next, the fatty content of food. This whole process is socialism at its worst.
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