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Our governor in Illinois, Pat Quinn, is proposing to increase cigarette taxes over the next year to a dollar more. Good grief, Governor, keep this up and folks will quit smoking! And he wants to add State taxes 50%. Maybe we ought to just move up the road to Wisconsin (but that might mean encounters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nOur Governor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our governor in Illinois, Pat Quinn, is proposing to increase cigarette taxes over the next year to a dollar more. 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