While marketing of tobacco products has come under fire for years and years, limiting where a logo can be seen, limiting the mediums that can be used and limiting their targeted audience, tobacco marketing has now submitted to the lowest of all forms, mass marketing email, aka: SPAM. But the story is much deeper...
In the American Lung Association 2003 Report the ALA shows how increasing taxes on consumers reduces tobacco use, increases state revenues and allows the funds to be used by states to fill current budgetary shortfalls.
With a per cigarette pack tax increase of $1.10 ($11.00 per carton) staring down at adult smokers in California, are California's adult smokers paying an undue amount of tax just because they smoke?
