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24 sty 2024 · Congress must pass H.R. 4775, the Helping Tobacco Users Quit Act, bipartisan legislation giving more people access to the resources they need to quit tobacco. The 2024 “State of Tobacco Control” report grades the federal government in five areas: Federal Regulation of Tobacco Products – Grade C.
15 wrz 2021 · The House Ways and Means Committee’s legislation to raise much-needed revenue would increase federal taxes on manufacturers of traditional tobacco products and begin taxing manufacturers of e-cigarettes, the use of which the Surgeon General has called an epidemic among young people.
20 lip 2024 · Treasury originally forecast the federal government would raise $15 billion in tobacco taxes last financial year but that has been revised down to just $10 billion, leaving a $5 billion shortfall.
14 wrz 2021 · The proposed legislation would increase federal tobacco taxes for the first time in over a decade, taking an overdue step to drive down tobacco use and respond to a significantly changed landscape of tobacco products.
4 sty 2024 · Significant tobacco tax increases are one of the most effective ways to prevent kids from starting to use tobacco and help adults quit.
13 paź 2016 · Three of these new laws were particularly influential: the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, which increased the federal cigarette excise tax rate from $0.39 to...
3 paź 2023 · Continuing to increase tobacco taxes and structure them to outpace inflation and income is essential. To qualify tobacco taxes as regressive is an argument that the tobacco industry has consistently used, stated Alan Fuchs, senior economist at the World Bank.
