Deborah Daniels: Indiana’s high smoking rate impacts businesses
Any discerning employer will think twice if faced with the choice between Indiana and another state with a lower smoking rate.
Any discerning employer will think twice if faced with the choice between Indiana and another state with a lower smoking rate.
The Indianapolis-based foundation said the study, announced Thursday, shows that if the state cigarette tax increased by $2 per pack, from the current 99 cents per pack, an estimated 45,000 Hoosier adults would stop smoking.
The spending plan also falls short of Gov. Eric Holcomb’s recommendations for public health funding,
A new report concludes major brands are exaggerating how ambitious their efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions are—in effect misleading consumers, investors and governments.
Tax cuts alone don’t further economic development. We have shown that.
The games of past decades weren’t as good as many people would like to remember, but nostalgia is a powerful force that filters out negative memories.
Indiana’s high smoking rate and poor health rankings demand a solution that lawmakers have avoided for far too long.
The problem is, this nanny-state, tax-hiking mentality is its own unhealthy addiction, and it won’t stop with cigarettes.
It is well known from multiple authoritative sources that increasing the cigarette tax is probably the most effective single strategy for reducing smoking rates.
Failure to invest in public health—and to raise taxes on all tobacco products—is not without cost.
Allegations stemmed from Juul’s marketing tactics, which included using hashtags and online influencers with large youth followings on social media platforms.
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce laid out its agenda as lawmakers prepare to return to the Statehouse next year to craft a two-year budget and consider dipping into the state’s $6 billion surplus to improve public health outcomes, education and workforce development.
A 2020 Indiana Department of Health report on the emotional, health and economic costs of perinatal care for infants shortly after birth, said the financial costs for premature births in Indiana are estimated to be between $655-678 million annually.
The American Cancer Society is emphasizing the need to discuss an increase to the state’s cigarette tax, which at 99 cents per pack is the 39th-lowest tax rate in the country.
A 2018 report found a $2 increase in the price of cigarettes would prevent an estimated 58,100 Hoosier youth from becoming adult smokers.
The agreement, which includes Indiana, resolves one of the biggest legal threats facing the beleaguered company, which still faces nine separate lawsuits from other states and hundreds of individual suits.
Don Fischer is the nation’s only working play-by-play announcer who has called at least 49 consecutive seasons of both football and basketball.
His crusade, joined by many others locally and nationally, had begun informally in 2014, and he had been involved in serious negotiations with the NBA for more than a year.
The tobacco industry has aggressively marketed menthol cigarettes (like Newport and Kool) to minority groups.
The agreement comes one day after the FDA placed a hold on its initial order banning Juul’s products from the market, saying that Juul’s application warranted “additional review.”