Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1985
Nation/World
University Daily Kansan
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Plans for cigarette tax draw mixed reactions
United Press International
| WASHINGTON — Senators from tobacco-producing states yesterday supported lower cigarette taxes to help ailing farmers, but health experts backed legislation to extend the current 16-cents-a-pack levy, or even double it, as a deterrent to smoking.
1 Unless Congress acts, the cigarette tax will drop to 8 cents a pack on Oct.
2. The House Ways and Means Committee has approved legislation to continue the current 16-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes, and one use of that tax to help tobacco farmers.
The Senate Finance Committee is considering two bills to continue the tax at 16 cents indefinitely and another to double it to 32 cents a pack. One 16-cent bill would give half the revenue to Medicare and the other would allocate half the money to a new disease prevention program at the state level.
! "The (16-cent) tax has taken a toll in terms of sales, jobs and payrolls," Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., said in a
statement.
"A regressive excise tax, like the cigarette tax, raises the price disproportionately for those in the lower income groups. The result: a drop in sales, lower earnings for hundreds of thousands of farmers and others who make their living in the production of tobacco and tobacco products," he said.
Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., said increasing the cigarette tax would mean a drop in sales that would force manufacturers to try to cut costs by buying cheaper, imported tobacco.
But M. Roy Schwartz, speaking for the American Medical Association, said the higher the price of cigarettes, the less likely Americans were to smoke and contract smoking-related diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease.
"When Benjamin Franklin wrote that nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes, he spoke of their certainty of existence and their inevitability." Schwartz said in a statement.
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