Editor’s Note: Nicotine is addictive. So too are tobacco taxes.
From: LA Times
With smoking on the decline and cigarette sales continuing to fall in California, a state health and child-welfare agency that relies on tobacco taxes for funding is exploring new ways to get money.
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The agency considering those options, First 5 California, is among a group of agencies and health organizations supported by California’s web of tobacco taxes, which brought in an estimated $835 million in the 2013-14 fiscal year, a decline from $1.2 billion in 1999-2000, a year after cigarette taxes last rose.
