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Lawmakers again turn their backs on proven benefits of cigarette tax hike
The yearly flirtation with raising the state s cigarette tax has become a lot like “Groundhog Day,” the 1993 Bill Murray comedy in which a TV weatherman lives the same day over and over again.
“An apt description,” Nancy Cripe, executive director of Tobacco Free Allen County, said Wednesday.
Like the titular holiday the film is named for, it s become an annual rite for Indiana lawmakers to file legislation to hike the state s paltry tobacco tax – and watch it fail.
It happened again this week, when Senate Republicans dropped a proposed 50-cent increase in the cigarette tax from the state budget proposal. Unlike the movie, the repeated sameness isn t funny. ....

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Cigarette tax hike gains momentum in Indianapolis
Nancy Cripe has been disappointed before, but she hopes 2021 brings welcome and long-awaited news about raising the state s cigarette tax.
“(I m) cautiously optimistic,” the executive director of Tobacco Free Allen County said Monday. “I m probably more optimistic than I have ever been.”
That s because Indiana lawmakers are again considering raising one of the country s lowest tobacco taxes, a move that would discourage smokers from lighting up and could generate revenue for public health programming in a state that spends comparatively little on its citizens well-being. The hike has been pitched in past years and gone nowhere, but it appears to have momentum going into the coming session to get the increase to Gov. Eric Holcomb s desk. ....

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