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Is it a baptism of sorts

" These companies have used the same playbook for decades, and we can no longer sit by while the next generation becomes addicted," said Mayor Bill de Blasio." The mayor said a series of five legislative proposals will be introduced to raise the price to $13 per pack

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In later years, he became a polarising figure over his support for the far-right National Front (later renamed the National Rally), whose founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen, he called a "dear friend"

But the cigarette people are frankly afraid of stirring up the reformers and bringing down upon themselves a lot of nuisance legislation