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... Legislature has repeatedly rejected attempts in the past to raise the state’s excise tax on tobacco products. WE BELIEVE: For a variety of reasons, it is important for state legislators to pass a bill to raise the tobacco tax during the 2017 legislative session , which starts Jan. ... natural disaster affected Wyoming, state legislators would find the money to help residents recover. If, God forbid, Wyoming experienced a rash of school shootings, those same legislators would be calling for increased security measures and finding ways to fund them. Yet year after year, ... rate of 60 cents ties it for eighth lowest with Kentucky. Study after study – including this latest one – shows that raising such taxes can save lives, dramatically reduce high tobacco-related health-care costs and generate much-needed revenue. Sadly, that last benefit is where ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- November 15, 2007 -- Today marks the 31st anniversary of the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout®. For more than three decades, the third Thursday in November has marked a day for highlighting the dangers of tobacco use and the importance of quitting smoking to improve individual health and promote better, safer communities. In recent years the Society and its sister advocacy organization, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), have also used the event to educate Americans about the dangers of secondhand smoke and the importance of tobacco control legislation in ...

... lawmakers this session, the Joint Committee on Public Health put together a bill (S 2152) dubbed "An Act to protect youth from the health risks of tobacco and nicotine addiction" that is now before the Senate Ways and Means Committee and slated to hit the Senate floor in formal session on ... described the bill's three main provisions -- a three-year increase in the age for tobacco sales, a ban on sales in pharmacies and the addition of e-cigarettes to the state's anti-smoking laws -- as "proven strategies for reducing nicotine addiction among young people." "I think we will ... is more important than being seen as a health care institution," Kearney said. "So to them, they're competing with other retailers, and if they can't have a certain product on their shelf that others can, that's a competitive disadvantage to them." Supporters of higher smoking ages say that ...

WASHINGTON, DC - As the United States marks the 50 th anniversary of the first Surgeon General 's Report on Smoking and Health, seven leading public health and medical organizations today called for a new national commitment to end the tobacco epidemic for good. At a press conference today, the organizations called for bold action by all levels of government to achieve three goals: Reduce smoking rates, currently at about 18 percent, to less than 10 percent within 10 years; Protect all ... years; and 3) ultimately eliminate the death and disease caused by tobacco. Over the past 50 years, we have developed proven strategies that can achieve these goals if they are fully and effectively implemented.ξ These strategies include tobacco tax increases, comprehensive smoke-free ...