$1.5 million cigarette heist

ABOUT $1.5 million worth of cigarettes have been stolen from a freight company in Sydney's west.

Police were called to the firm's holding yard at Wetherill Park on Saturday after employees discovered it had been broken into and four pallets of cigarettes stolen. Police allege that CCTV showed three men breaking into the premises about 1am.

They used a forklift to remove the pallets before putting them in a truck, which was later found burnt out at Minchinbury. While the cigarettes have a wholesale value of about $600,000, police said they would retail for approximately $1.5 million.

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Tobacco giants’ plain talk on packaging

The big tobacco manufacturers are to meet health officials this month, giving them a unique opportunity to head off government proposals to enforce non-branding on cigarette packs.
Imperial Tobacco, the world’s fourth-largest tobacco company, will visit the Department of Health today to discuss the department’s official assessment on how plain tobacco packaging would affect the industry.
The other big manufacturers have also been invited to meet officials. British American Tobacco will do so later in the month.

Additional Omaha Cigarette Tax Took Effect January 1st

If you live in Omaha it's going to cost you more to light up in 2013. A three percent occupation tax on cigarette sales goes into effect January 1st.

The new tax is meant to raise roughly $35 million for the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s $370 million dollar cancer complex.

The City Council ended up approving a scaled down version of the original tax proposal, which was sitting at seven percent, according to WOWT. The council expects to raise that $35 million over the next decade.