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House Republicans vote to hike Indiana cigarette tax by 50 cents per pack
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The two-year state budget proposal crafted by House Republicans prioritizes one-time spending focused on helping students and businesses recover from the COVID-19 pandemic over the state debt paydown preferred by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb.
The House GOP plan unveiled Thursday allocates $150 million to fund grants to school corporations, colleges and universities, community organizations, current or retired teachers, and pretty much any entity prepared to assist Indiana elementary and high school students overcome pandemic-related âlearning lossâ and help them return to grade-level achievement.
Similarly, the spending plan creates a $30 million Hoosier Hospitality Small Business Restart Grant Program to assist restaurants, hotels and transportation businesses with fewer than 100 full-time employees to carry on operations as the Hoosier State advances toward a post-pandemic economy.
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State Rep. Julie Olthoff, R-Crown Point, is leading a Statehouse effort to reduce Hoosier smoking rates by seeking to increase Indianaâs cigarette tax by $1 per pack.
Olthoff told the House Public Health Committee on Monday that 1 in 5 Indiana adults are smokers, along with 23% of high school students, and theyâre disproportionately driving up health care costs and cancer rates in the state, while reducing worker productivity. Our desire is to drive a new wave of smoking cessation and prevention, especially for our Indiana youth, Olthoff said.
The Republican explained the $1 per pack cigarette tax hike in House Bill 1434 is high enough to discourage younger Hoosiers from continuing or taking up the habit, and likewise should spur many adult smokers to consider scaling back or quitting smoking altogether.
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19/01/2021 08:16 GMT+7
The smoking rate among men in many provinces and cities last year fell compared to 2017 as a result of agencies’ efforts to implement tobacco harm-prevention programmes,
Dr Phan Thi Hai, deputy head of the Tobacco Harm Prevention Fund, said at a conference held in HCM City on Friday.
Students speak about the provisions of the Law on Tobacco Harm Prevention. VNA/VNS Photo Duong Ngoc
The smoking rate among men in HCM City fell to 44.5 per cent in 2020 from 46.7 per cent in 2017, and dropped by 7.5 per cent in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and by 7.4 per cent in the northern province of Phu Tho.
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