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American Lung Association Report Shows 2007 Shaping Up to be a Banner Year for Tobacco Control Policies.

cigarette smoking has been identified as the number one preventable cause of morbidity and premature mortality worldwide. Smoking is responsible for approximately one in five deaths in the United States. From 1997 to 2001, smoking killed an estimated 438,000 people in the United States each year. This includes an estimated 259,494 male and 178,404 female deaths annually. Among adults, the three leading specific causes of smoking attributable deaths were from lung cancer (123,836), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (90,582) and ischemic heart disease (86,801).

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Productivity Losses * U.S., 1997-2001. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) 2005; 54(25); 625-628.

These statistics alone ought to be reason enough to warrant strong tobacco control laws such as cigarette tax increases and increased funding for tobacco prevention programs, but every year new studies show that the harmful effects of smoking not only effect the smoker, but also the workers and general public exposed to secondhand smoke.

This website is home to the online version of State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues (SLATI), which tracks state tobacco control laws, such as state restrictions on smoking in public places and workplaces and state tobacco taxes, on an ongoing basis. It is the only resource of its kind in tobacco control today providing up-to-date information on tobacco control laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. You can learn more about SLATI here.

Below is a list of just some of the reports and information on tobacco control laws and policy found on this site. Please explore the various areas and learn how to get involved in the important fight for strong tobacco control laws and policies. As many of the inspirational people who are living with lung disease will tell you, it’s a fight we cannot afford to lose.

Click here for more information.

DavidTan
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I’m a freelance writer interested in the rising price of sin taxes? The basic angle is that smoking cigarettes is not that much cheaper than smoking pot in some municipalities.

I can give you a link for the US but not for the countries of the world.

This is a link to a map of the US with the state taxes of each state. It also says how much the federal taxes are on cigarettes. At the bottom, it lists the areas that also have a city tax (for example, NYC residents have a federal tax of $1.01, a state tax of $2.75 and a city tax of $1.50)

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0222.pdf

These taxes are only for pre-made cigarettes.

This is another great site that lists the tobacco taxes per state. It also includes taxes on loose roll your own tobacco. As you can see, the Federal tax increase last year was a 2,200% increase. The taxes on roll your own are now higher than the retail value of the products.

http://ryorevolution.com/ryo-tobacco-tax.html

There is currently a bill proposed in the House that would raise the taxes on pipe tobacco from $2.83 per pound up to $24.78 per pound (again, this would make the taxes higher than the retail value of most of the products).

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-4439

If you click on "Full Text" you can read the bill. It’s a short read.

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Most tobacco taxes are levied as ‘x’ cents per cigarette and ‘x’ cents per gram or ounce of loose tobacco. So most likely it will be levied on loose tobacco as well as cigars, etc.

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I know that back on April 1st, the Cigarette and Tobacco taxes were substantially increased.

Since then I’ve heard around that there is pending legislation that there will be another tax increase during the Fall/Winter months of 2009, but can’t find any evidence of that.

Anybody know?

There no more pending Federal tobacco tax increases at present. Those take an act of Congress and Congress is busy with other issues right now.

State taxes could increase at any time and that is were most high tobacco taxes exist. (The tax on a pack of cigarettes in NYC is nearly $6.00 when all taxes are added in.)

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