cigarette tax

Mo. Tax Reform Proposal Includes Another Cigarette Tax Hike, Flat Income Tax

Marshall Griffin — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:27:10 +0000

Despite being rejected by voters last month, there’s a new proposal to raise Missouri’s cigarette tax.

Effort To Raise Cigarette Tax Fails (Again)

Véronique LaCapra — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:43:08 +0000

Missouri voters have narrowly defeated an effort to raise the state’s tobacco tax.

If Proposition B had passed, the tax on a pack of cigarettes would have gone from the lowest in the nation, at 17 cents, up to 90 cents.

Raise Missouri's Cigarette Tax? Voters To Decide On Proposition B

Véronique LaCapra — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:18:46 +0000

Missouri has the lowest cigarette tax of any state in the country – and some of the highest smoking and lung cancer rates. A measure on tomorrow’s ballot – Proposition B – is aiming to change that.

While previous efforts to raise Missouri’s cigarette tax have failed, proponents of this increase are more optimistic.

Proposition B - Tobacco Tax Increase

Alex Heuer, Mary Edwards and Don Marsh — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 16:33:00 +0000

In the third of four discussions as part of our town hall meeting about statewide ballot issues we take a look at Proposition B, concerning a tobacco tax increase.

Host Don Marsh talks with Dudley McCarter, an attorney and board member of Missourians for Health and Education, and Ron Leone, the Executive Director of the Missouri Petroleum Marketers & Convenience Store Association.

McCarter supports Proposition B and Leone opposes it.

Official Ballot Title: (source: Missouri Secretary of State website)

McCaskill backs cigarette tax increase, even if it costs her supporters

Chris McDaniel — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:22:00 +0000

Democratic US Senator Claire McCaskill is throwing her support behind the November ballot initiative that would raise the cigarette tax in Missouri. If approved, the initiative would increase the current cigarette tax from the lowest in the nation at 17 cents, to 90 cents.