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Senate To Take Up The Tax
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Senate To Take Up The Tax On Tuesday, the Mass. Senate will be taking up tax legislation that includes a $1.00/pack increase in the cigarette tax. The bill passed the House in early April. HCFA and the ACT!! Coalition, working with Tobacco Free Mass, strongly support the proposed tobacco tax increase. As we’ve said before, tobacco taxes provide stable, predictable revenue, and also reduce smoking, particularly among teens. Some see this as a contradiction, an oxymoron. But there’s no contradiction. Smoking levels do predictably decline - about a 4% drop for every 10% increase in the retail price.
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