There’s nothing like the dollar-a-pack tax on tobacco products—now pending in the Texas Senate—to smoke out the shameless tobacco hacks who have enveloped the capitol in recent months. With sin-taxes dominating Austin’s agenda, tobacco interests spent $1.4 million to $2.9 million on 52 lobby contracts by the first of this year.
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