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Gloor introduced the bill the same day that the Nebraska Chapter of the American Cancer Society released its polling results. Those results found that 73 percent of Nebraska voters surveyed support raising the tobacco tax by $1.35 per pack to help fix the state’s finances and fund health care programs, including programs to reduce tobacco use among kids.
According to the poll, support cuts across party lines, with 74 percent of Republicans,newport cigarettes, 72 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of independent voters supporting the tobacco tax increase. The poll was released by a coalition of public health groups,marlboro cigarettes wholesale,wholesale marlboro cigarettes coupons, including the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association in Nebraska and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
“These results show that voters across Nebraska understand raising the tobacco tax is a smart way to protect health care funding and support programs that help smokers quit,” said David Holmquist,newport 100s cigarettes,cheap newport cigarettes supplier, director of government relations for the American Cancer Society in Nebraska. Nebraska’s current cigarette tax of 64 cents per pack ranks the state 38th in the nation and is well below the national average of $1.45 per pack, the American Cancer Society said.
The overall effective tax rate of 40 per cent on a packet of smokes in China is much lower than the international average which ranges from 65 per cent to 70 per cent. The tobacco industry has long argued that tax increases risk cutting government revenues, but Hu says a tax rise would actually raise revenues while reducing tobacco demand.
In Thailand,wholesale newport cigarettes, as the tobacco tax rate increased from 55 per cent in 1992,newport cigarettes supplier, to 70 per cent in 1999 to 79 per cent in 2006, packets of cigarettes sold fell from 2.035 billion, to 1.81 billion to 1.793 billion, according to the Excise Department and the Ministry of Finance of Thailand. The data also showed revenues generated by the industry grew from 15.44 billion Baht (514 million US dollars) in 1992, to 26.71 billion Baht in 1999 to 35.65 billion Baht in 2006.
Hu’s study showed that raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes by 1 yuan would increase the Chinese government’s revenues by 64.9 billion yuan, reduce the number of smokers by 3.4 million,marlboro gold, reduce medical costs by 2.68 billion yuan and generate a productivity gain of 9.92 billion yuan. However, the decision to raise consumption tax on cigarettes by between 6 per cent and 11 per cent in May 2009 brought increased revenues – but no reduction in tobacco use.