Sentences with phrase «cigarette tax increase»

Under Armey, FreedomWorks consistently took the tobacco industry's side by opposing cigarette tax increases.

Fearful of a shutdown, the governor released plans Wednesday to offer a $ 1 - a-pack cigarette tax increase as part of Monday's extender.

First, in 2009 there was an increase in federal tobacco tax.35 The national cigarette tax increased by 158 %, resulting in an immediate reduction in cigarette uptake among US adolescents.35 In our study we found a small but statistically significant increase in quit attempts among US adults, from 39.9 % in 2006 - 07 to 41.4 % in 2010 - 11 (fig 2, top panel).

This study helps physicians, public health officials and policymakers understand just how much benefit cigarette tax increases can have on infant health,» said lead author Stephen Patrick, M.D., MPH, MS, assistant professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy in the Division of Neonatology at Monroe Carell Jr..

Cigarette tax increases for 2018 are due to kick in on January 1, 2018, and savvy tobacco consumers are looking for alternatives.

May 29, 2013 Rush Holt supports cigarette tax increase to fund national preschool program, The Trentonian

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.

AG Andrew Cuomo opposes the soda tax and the cigarette tax increase as a means to close the budget deficit.

A cigarette tax increase has been opposed by tobacco retailers, however, who say it merely drives consumers to black market cigarettes.

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.

Under PM's Vice President of Corporate Affairs Ellen Merlo, the department was responsible for the formation of the smokers rights front group the National Smokers Alliance, a fake «grassroots» group set up to protest public smoking laws, cigarette tax increases and other public health measures.

In 2005, FreedomWorks opposed a cigarette tax increase in Cook County, Illinois.

Armey also opposed a cigarette tax increase in Maine in 2011.