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This has not been a very good last few months for smokers. Or, if you are optimistic or trying to stop smoking, it has been a great last few months.

Source: WalletHub If you are a smoker (or plan on becoming a smoker one day), then this study will either make you want to quit right now or make you glad that smoking is shaving years off your life expectancy.

(AP)  A House panel rejected a bid to raise Idaho's cigarette tax by $1.25 per pack, with Republicans  calling it social engineering. The Revenue and Taxation Committee's vote Monday was 11-5, easily defeating the bill sponsored by groups including the American Lung Association. Reps. Lenore Barrett and Vito Barbieri said cajoling people to quit by boosting a legal product's cost wasn't acceptable

A coalition of Idaho health groups is vowing to try once again to convince lawmakers to raise the state's tax on tobacco. And like last year, those groups have the backing of Rep. Dennis Lake, chairman of the House Revenue and Taxation Committee...