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Tobacco Company RJ Reynolds was criticized for its tactics to draw signatures to a petition against raising the cigarette tax in South Carolina.
 
The company gave away free beer or cigarettes in exchange for signatures at a bar in West Columbia SC.
 
The tax increase is intended to provide health care funding for uninsured residents.
 

Tobacco giant offers beer, cigarettes for signing petition

Charleston Post Courier - 3/22/2006 7:11 AM

R.J. Reynolds launched its campaign against a proposed 32-cent tax hike Monday night at a West Columbia bar. Swaying to the music of alt-country rockers Cross Canadian Ragweed, company officials and young women offered a free pack of cigarettes to smokers or a free beer to nonsmokers who signed a petition urging state lawmakers not to increase the state's cigarette tax. At 7 cents per pack, it is the lowest rat
 
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