Updates matching "Tobacco Taxes"

A Montana proposed ballot measure to increase tobacco taxes is ready for signature gathering. The voter initiative would also extend Montana’s Medicaid expansion program beyond next year.

A rally was held Thursday to spark support for a ballot initiative that would increase the cost of a pack of cigarettes by $2 and add fees to other tobacco products to be used for Medicaid expansion and other health programs.

A proposed ballot measure that would increase state tobacco taxes and extend Montana’s expanded Medicaid program for 94,000 low-income adults has been approved for signature-gathering. A coalition of supporters also plans to kick off its campaign Thursday to gather the 25,000-plus signatures of registered voters needed to qualify Initiative 185

COLUMBUS, OH – April 16, 2018 – State legislators will hear firsthand from cancer patients and survivors tomorrow during Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol. The day-long gathering organized by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) draws cancer advocates from around the state to urge lawmakers

The following letter was published December 15, 2017 in the North Platte Telegraph. Maybe you’ve already seen them: stark, plain ads running on primetime television, paid for by Big Tobacco, admitting that they have lied to Americans for decades about the dangers of their products. A court ordered them

The following letter was published in the Omaha World Herald on January 21, 2018. I support increasing the tobacco tax in Nebraska by a significant amount. I am a local health care provider in North Platte, Nebraska, and a volunteer with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. I