Taxes

Last week, the California Senate approved five different anti-tobacco measures as part of a special session on health. The measures included raising the minimum age to…

The multi-year effort to make cigars more affordable in Hawaii had a significant win last week. A week ago, Hawaii’s Senate voted 19-4 with two…

California is one signature away from becoming the second state to require individuals to be 21 to purchase tobacco products. As expected, the California Senate…

An attempt to raise the taxes on tobacco products in West Virginia was defeated today. The House Finance Committee failed to advance SB 420, a…

California is likely to become the second state where individuals must be 21 to purchase tobacco products. Today, a special session on healthcare in the…

A proposal to raise the tax on premium cigars and other non-cigarette tobacco products from seven percent to twelve percent of the wholesale price has…

A new bill in Alaska would increase the tax on cigars to 100 percent of the wholesale price. At the request of Gov. Bill Walker,…

In January, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia introduced a proposed budget that would increase the tax on other tobacco products, including cigars, from 7…

Last month, two bills were introduced in the New Jersey legislature that would have raised the tax on cigars from 30 percent of the wholesale…

As part of the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2017, a new program called Preschool for All has been proposed with funding coming from an…

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has been trying to get the minimum age to purchase tobacco products increased for nearly a month, as well as a…