Comments on: NC Smoking Ban? http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/22/nc-smoking-ban/ A concentration of local citizen journalists Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:12:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: ian http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/22/nc-smoking-ban/#comment-35 ian Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:31:41 +0000 http://www.groveproject.org/2007/10/22/nc-smoking-ban/#comment-35 I thought I'd heard somewhere that NC had the lowest state tobacco tax rate, but this article has South Carolina at an incredible 7 cents a pack!: <a href="http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20071001/NEWS/710010342" rel="nofollow">Cigarette tax increase would fund insurance</a> (Star News) <p>The bill was vetoed, of course, but it was an effort to get a federal tobacco tax increase from 39 cents to a dollar to fund the children's healthcare coverage that's been in the news so much. I was amazed at that number, 7 cents. That's a deal! Look at NJ at 2.57 a pack *on top* of whatever federal taxes apply. Does that start to change the habit some, I wonder? Interesting comment about the economics of such a proposal too: <blockquote> Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La., did not buy that logic. "To propose funding a growing program with a declining revenue source is, I would submit, irresponsible fiscal policy," he said. </blockquote> I thought I’d heard somewhere that NC had the lowest state tobacco tax rate, but this article has South Carolina at an incredible 7 cents a pack!:

Cigarette tax increase would fund insurance (Star News)

The bill was vetoed, of course, but it was an effort to get a federal tobacco tax increase from 39 cents to a dollar to fund the children’s healthcare coverage that’s been in the news so much. I was amazed at that number, 7 cents. That’s a deal! Look at NJ at 2.57 a pack *on top* of whatever federal taxes apply. Does that start to change the habit some, I wonder?

Interesting comment about the economics of such a proposal too:

Rep. Jim McCrery, R-La., did not buy that logic. “To propose funding a growing program with a declining revenue source is, I would submit, irresponsible fiscal policy,” he said.

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