Reynolds American Spending Big Bucks to Fight Anti-Tobacco Initiatives

[LiberalHeart]

RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA (AP) -- In Arizona, they're called the Non-Smoker Protection Committee. In Ohio, it's simply Smokeless Ohio.

Anti-smoking advocates? Hardly. Both are staunchly pro-tobacco and supported in part by North Carolina-based cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc., which is working hard this year to defeat proposed smoking bans in those states, as well as ballot efforts to raise cigarette taxes in California and Missouri.

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