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It isn't the first time that Obama has gone down this road. In 2009, he raised the federal cigarette tax from 39 cents to $1.01 to finance the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP. His new proposal would raise it again ...Washington Examiner · 4/16/2013
Cigarette taxes "are ... But the most recent hike in the federal tobacco tax went toward expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Siegel called that "inappropriate," saying the program's solvency should not depend on Americans ...US News and World Report · 11/28/2012
Flanigan also warned of increased smuggling and black market activity if cigarette prices are raised ... would increase the federal excise tax on tobacco products and raise money to fund children's health insurance programs and smoking cessation programs.californiahealthline.org · 5/12/2013
The approach is similar to one that Congress took in 2008 that more than doubled the federal cigarette tax – from 39 cents to $1.01 a pack – to help pay for a $32.8 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Obama signed that ...Winston-Salem Journal · ByRichard Craver · 4/5/2013
According to a White House budget document, the tobacco-tax proposal would increase all other tobacco taxes by about the same proportion, and index the taxes ... Ross has advocated the use of smokeless tobacco products as an option for smokers …Winston-Salem Journal · ByRichard Craver · 4/10/2013
which currently fund children's health insurance programs, while also helping to lower youth tobacco consumption and combat illegal tobacco smuggling. “Black market cigarette sales and tobacco tax loopholes are robbing our public coffers of funding we ...nacsonline.com · 4/28/2013
I wholeheartedly support the new Healthy Maryland Initiative proposal to discourage tobacco use through cigarette tax increases. It's good economic and health policy, and on a personal level, I believe such taxes have helped save two of my children's lives ...Baltimore Sun · 8/29/2012
The Children's Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2009 increased ... by increasing taxes on under-taxed tobacco products so they are equal to the cigarette tax rate. Among other steps, it would increase the pipe tobacco tax to the same ...Yahoo! News · 1/31/2013
Little hit the nail dead center, “It’s for the children” or it’s for the children’s education ... share of health insurance premiums? Probably pushed aside again, and couple years ago was going to look at property tax rolls, find ...Daily Times · 6/10/2013
... to the 62-cent federal tobacco tax increase enacted in 2009 to help fund children's health insurance ("Big tax increase reduces smoking," USA Today, Sept. 11). Cigarette sales dropped by more than 11 percent in the 12 months after the cigarette tax ...Deseret News · 10/2/2012
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