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The bSenate/b passed a bill raising the state's lowest-in-the-nation 7-cent cigarette tax by 50 cents late Wednesday, but only after nearly eight hours of contentious debate that challenged bSenate/b decorum and left lawmakers questioning each other's motives.

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