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Reducing the toll of tobacco

  • Tobacco Taxes: As the state works to identify funding strategies to fund critical programs, ACS CAN will advocate to increase the cigarette tax by $2.00 per pack with a parallel tax on all other tobacco products. Increasing the price of cigarettes and all other tobacco products through regular and significant tobacco tax increases helps prevent kids from starting to use tobacco and helps support people who are trying to quit.   

  • Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Funding: ACS CAN will work to maintain funding for fact-based, statewide tobacco prevention and cessation programs at $16 million.