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Article: FUND ANTI-SMOKING INITIATIVES THE ISSUE ALTHOUGH NEW YORK STATE HAS ONE OF THE HIGHEST TAXES ON CIGARETTES, IT SPENDS RELATIVELY LITTLE TO COMBAT SMOKING. OUR OPINION THE STATE SHOULD USE AT LEAST A PORTION OF THE 56-CENTS PER PACK TAX ON CIGARETTES ON ANTI-SMOKING MEASURES.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 27, 1994
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In California, a dramatic increase in cigarette taxes led, quite logically, to a dramatic increase in funding for anti-smoking measures. In New York, a 17-cent-per-pack hike in cigarette taxes last year provided more income for the general fund, but not a penny of the increase was set aside for tobacco control. Care to guess which state has witnessed a huge decline in tobacco use, and which reports a steady consumption of cigarettes?
Tobacco use in California is down 30 percent three times the national rate in the six years since voters approved Proposition 99, which raised the state tax on tobacco products and required that 20 percent be devoted to ...