Simply allowing the city to
raise its cigarette tax in order to boost school funding.
A version of this article appears in print on June 19, 2010, on Page A14 of the New York edition with the headline: State Leaders Agree on Proposal to
Raise Cigarette Tax by $ 1.60 a Pack.
He questioned plans to eliminate a property tax credit for many middle - income homeowners,
raise the cigarette tax and sweep $ 64 million from a clean energy fund.
Rhode Island $ 3.46 Connecticut $ 3.00 * Hawaii $ 2.80 New York $ 2.75 New Jersey $ 2.70 Georgia $ 0.37 Louisiana $ 0.36 Virginia $ 0.30 Missouri $ 0.17 S. Carolina $ 0.07 * effective July 1, 2010 Source: The Tax Foundation «As far as we can tell, it's not a done deal, but the governor and Assembly leadership appear to be committed to (
raising the cigarette tax),» said James Calvin, president of the state Association of Convenience Stores.
By
raising cigarette taxes and strengthening clean indoor air laws, states may not only reduce health detriments related to smoking, but also those related to drinking.»
The organizations» leadership thought other policies offered more promising ways to reduce smoking such as by
raising cigarette taxes, imposing more severe restrictions on indoor smoking, and controlling tobacco marketing.
Raising cigarette taxes to combat smoking may increase the use of cigars and smokeless tobacco, such as chewing tobacco, in adolescents according to a study published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, involving 499,381 adolescents.
Cigarette death toll from World Health Organization, «Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD),» fact sheet (Geneva: November 2006); Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, «Top Combined State - Local Cigarette Tax Rates,» fact sheet (Washington, DC: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, 1 July 2007); Campaign for Tobacco - Free Kids, «
Raising Cigarette Taxes Reduces Smoking, Especially Among Kids (And the Cigarette Companies Know It),» fact sheet (Washington, DC: Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, 11 June 2007).
Not exact matches
The Liberals are also spending $ 80.5 million over five years starting this year to reduce tobacco use, particularly in Indigenous communities, and
raising taxes on
cigarettes by $ 1 per carton.
Hey, and then we can get the anti-smoking crowd off the backs of the smokers when they state that they want to
raise the
taxes on
cigarettes so that adult smokers will want to stop smoking.
It didn't take long for them to
RAISE TAXES on
cigarettes once again yet these Morons have NO common sense on Marijuana.
u An $ 1.60 increase in the state
cigarette tax,
raising the total to a prohibitive $ 3.40 per pack — highest in the nation.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, who called the governor's presentation «sobering,» did not object to plans to
raise taxes on health insurers, electronic
cigarette users and prescription opioid patients.
Another bitter side - dish next week may well include a $ 1 a pack hike on
cigarettes,
raising to $ 2.75 per pack the state excise
tax on butts, the source said.
A pack of
cigarettes now costs more than $ 5 on average — with some states tacking on additional
taxes that
raise the price even more.
Since 2002, 48 states and DC have seen
cigarette taxes raised cumulatively more than 130 times.
What started as a legislative attempt to
raise money for Missouri's public schools by increasing the
tax on
cigarettes has developed into a political donnybrook that may ultimately yield relatively little for the schools.
The board will have the authority to sell bonds to pay for the renovations and will collect revenue
raised by local hotel / motel, liquor and
cigarette taxes.
Since the demand curve for
cigarettes is relatively inelastic (people keep buying them no matter the price — within reason), the company can
raise prices more than
cigarette tax increases, and increase its margins in the process.
Philip Morris
raises its
cigarette prices whenever
taxes increase.
Correction to # 105: It's no good pretending that a substantial part of the attraction of [
cigarette taxes] to governments, is not that it gives them an easy excuse to
raise taxes.
It was gradually established that smoking prevalence could be reduced by
raising the
tax on
cigarettes, and by banning tobacco advertising.
We
raised the City's
tax on
cigarettes steeply.
Now that these costs have been calculated, they can be used to set
tax rates on gasoline, just as the CDC analysis is being used to
raise taxes on
cigarettes.
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Do you think the Left actually believe no one ever stopped smoking until the sin
tax on
cigarettes was
raised from 50 cents to $ 5 / pack?
We can
raise the price of
cigarettes through
taxes, which is known to reduce demand, especially among young people who are the industry's reservoir of future addicts to their legal product.
Among other things, the treaty calls for
raising taxes on
cigarettes, limiting smoking in public places, and strong health warnings on
cigarette packages.