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Gloor introduced the bill the same day that the Nebraska Chapter of the American Cancer Society released its polling results. Those results found that 73 percent of Nebraska voters surveyed support raising the tobacco tax by $1.35 per pack to help fix the state’s finances and fund health care programs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including programs to reduce tobacco use among kids.
According to the poll,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], support cuts across party lines,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with 74 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of Democrats and 75 percent of independent voters supporting the tobacco tax increase. The poll was released by a coalition of public health groups, including the American Cancer Society,marlboro cigarettes supplier, American Heart Association, American Lung Association in Nebraska and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
“These results show that voters across Nebraska understand raising the tobacco tax is a smart way to protect health care funding and support programs that help smokers quit,” said David Holmquist,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], director of government relations for the American Cancer Society in Nebraska. Nebraska’s current cigarette tax of 64 cents per pack ranks the state 38th in the nation and is well below the national average of $1.45 per pack, the American Cancer Society said.
The overall effective tax rate of 40 per cent on a packet of smokes in China is much lower than the international average which ranges from 65 per cent to 70 per cent. The tobacco industry has long argued that tax increases risk cutting government revenues, but Hu says a tax rise would actually raise revenues while reducing tobacco demand.
In Thailand, as the tobacco tax rate increased from 55 per cent in 1992, to 70 per cent in 1999 to 79 per cent in 2006,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], packets of cigarettes sold fell from 2.035 billion, to 1.81 billion to 1.793 billion, according to the Excise Department and the Ministry of Finance of Thailand. The data also showed revenues generated by the industry grew from 15.44 billion Baht (514 million US dollars) in 1992, to 26.71 billion Baht in 1999 to 35.65 billion Baht in 2006.
Hu’s study showed that raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes by 1 yuan would increase the Chinese government’s revenues by 64.9 billion yuan,wholesale marlboro cigarettes online, reduce the number of smokers by 3.4 million, reduce medical costs by 2.68 billion yuan and generate a productivity gain of 9.92 billion yuan. However, the decision to raise consumption tax on cigarettes by between 6 per cent and 11 per cent in May 2009 brought increased revenues – but no reduction in tobacco use.