Friday, May 24, 2013

Higher tobacco tax proposed

“The single most effective thing California could do is to increase the tobacco tax,” McGoldrick said. A proposal to raise the tobacco tax in California by $2 per pack of cigarettes passed the Senate committee on health as well as the committee on governance and finance on Wednesday and is heading to appropriations. Senator Kevin de León, D-Los Angeles, who introduced the bill, SB 768, said the $1.5 billion raised from the tobacco tax each year would help pay for state spending on tobacco-related medical care, education and law enforcement.

Los Angeles high school student smoking rates, 1997-2011. Source: CDC – Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
Another key element in tobacco control is to reverse the idea that smoking is a hip, sophisticated and rebellious activity.

Teen smoking rates stall

The CDC study on teens and tobacco advertising comes amid concerns from many in the public health community that California’s dramatic success in the fight against tobacco may be in jeopardy. As the first in the nation to launch a campaign to change the social norms around smoking in 1989, the state has been a model for what works in policy and media campaigns, and the results have been impressive. The teen smoking rate is 13.8 percent, the second-lowest rate in the nation, behind Utah’s teen smoking rate of 5.9 percent.
Teen smoking rates stall

But California’s anti-tobacco efforts are now woefully underfunded, according to the Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee, a state advisory committee charged with overseeing the use of Proposition 99 tobacco tax revenues for tobacco control. And after years of dazzling reductions, the decline in teen smoking in California appears to have hit a plateau.

Data from three California cities that participated in the CDC’s 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey – Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco – show a stunning drop in teen smoking from 1997 to 2011.

Monday, May 20, 2013

Free tax cheap cigarettes online.

Not all men can always afford to buy a premium brand of cigarettes on a regular basis. Due to the high taxes and large cigarettes surcharges are becoming more and more expensive every year. It is likely that another tax increase on cigarettes is not far off, so on this evidence, it is quite natural that the number of smokers prefer to buy cheap cigarettes online is growing from year to year.

But why in fact, online stores sell Lucky Strike cheap cigarettes with discount cigarettes online are able to offer such attractive rates and terms of purchase? The answer to this question is not a secret! Many online stores do not include any taxes in cigarette prices, shown on their sites, but in reality, there is no need to worry about taxes, because when it comes to online cigarette stores no tax is applied there. This means that it is up to you to decide whether you want or be able to pay the taxes on cigarettes, as soon as you get your cigarettes to buy online or not. In addition, a virtual shopping to exclude from their prices, and a significant cost item - they do not have to pay for commercial space and shelf space, which allows these stores to cut prices significantly.

Camel cigarettes products

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