Dr. Richard Feldman: Increasing cigarette tax would make Indiana healthier
Will we finally increase the cigarette tax this legislative session? It would be big medicine for Indiana’s health and economics.
Will we finally increase the cigarette tax this legislative session? It would be big medicine for Indiana’s health and economics.
The business-advocacy organization also said it re-elected board Chairman Dennis Murphy of IU Health and the rest of the board’s executive committee.
Leaders promise K-12 education will be the top priority, but they also acknowledge that every line item in the spending plan is at risk of cuts.
During the chamber’s annual legislative preview event—which was held virtually this year as a safety precaution—the organization announced its top five priorities for the session that starts in January.
Learn what you can before you cast your ballot—and don’t stop with the federal races. The future of our communities and our state depends on it.
Granted, Holcomb and his campaign have nothing to gain politically by introducing creative policy proposals in the midst of a safe race. But how about January? He’ll have four years and little to lose by making bold proposals that can help those who are struggling, shore up our weaknesses and make Indiana more economically competitive than ever.
IBJ looked at 30 of the more measurable commitments the governor has made over the last four years to see whether he’s lived up to what he promised and what Hoosiers can expect if he wins a second term.
Like regular first aid, PFA is a way of helping someone in pain – except rather than cleaning and bandaging a cut or applying ice to a sprained ankle, you tend to someone’s anxiety or distress in a way that will ease it and help restore a sense of equanimity.
Officials sought to put the decrease in context: Because youth vaping had climbed astronomically in the past two years, this year’s drop—while significant—brings usage back to the 2018 level.
The Ayres clock has been located at that corner since 1936 and was named for the L.S. Ayres department store that occupied the historic building the clock is attached to for most of the 20th century.
A team of infectious-disease experts argues in a new analysis, published this week, that six-feet protocols are too rigid and are based on outmoded science and observations of different viruses.
New state laws affecting phone use in cars, tobacco fines, teen marriage and gasoline taxes begin this week.
As mitigation is relaxed, there will certainly be increases in cases and mortality again.
Indiana will continue to receive payments as long as tobacco manufacturers continue selling cigarettes in the state.
The federal government performed the heavy lifting in accomplishing what the Indiana Legislature could not.
Indiana lawmakers were only at the Statehouse for 10 weeks, but they debated plenty of topics.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed 84 bills on Wednesday, but has not made decisions yet on several pieces of controversial legislation.
The House and Senate on Wednesday both passed Senate Bill 1, which increases the legal tobacco age and doubles the fines stores could face for selling smoking or vaping products to anyone younger than 21.
The bill would place new restrictions on the marketing of e-cigarettes and ban flavors in tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. It also would place a new excise tax on nicotine.
Indiana lawmakers are poised to double the fines stores could face for selling smoking or vaping products to anyone younger than 21 years old.