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New Cook County budget includes $1-a-pack cigarette tax hike

The cost of buying cigarettes and guns in Cook County will rise next year after commissioners today voted 16-1 to approve County Board President Toni Preckwinkle's $2.95 billion budget.

By Hal Dardick

November 9, 2012

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