UM leaders put wallets behind tobacco tax hike

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 | 9:29 a.m. CDT; updated 12:15 p.m. CDT, Wednesday, October 17, 2012

COLUMBIA — A November ballot measure to significantly raise Missouri's tobacco tax to increase public education spending is drawing financial support from leaders of the state's flagship university and the other Missouri system campuses.

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