Baltimore leaders, clergy push for budget fix
May 1, 2012
Faith community leaders said they support increasing the sales tax on little cigars and other tobacco products to 70 percent -- doing so would help expand health care coverage. They also support increasing the state income tax rate.... Read more »
Momentum for tobacco tax increase builds
March 8, 2012
A push by public health advocates to increase the tax on cigarettes, cigars and smokeless tobacco has gained momentum in Annapolis.... Read more »
Proposal to raise MD cigar tax attacked: Denounced as a business burden
January 20, 2012
The governor’s support gives the tax a stronger chance of ending up in the final budget, though tobacco lobbyists and opposing lawmakers could push for its removal.... Read more »
The ‘other’ tobacco tax
Editorial View: Time for Maryland to do the right thing and tax cigars, snuff and other forms of tobacco at a rate comparable to the tax on cigarettes... Read more »
The Baltimore Sun’s 2012 legislative agenda: Cigar tax
January 11, 2012
According to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene¿s Youth Tobacco Survey, nearly as many teens now smoke cigars as cigarettes. The state should raise taxes on cigars and other tobacco products so they are equivalent to cigarette taxes.... Read more »
Letter to the editor: Cigar tax increase would reduce teen use
Baltimore Sun January 4, 2012 In a recent Baltimore Sun article about our proposed tax increase for cigars and smokeless tobacco designed to reduce teen use of these products (“Group pushing tobacco tax says it’s a popular idea,” Dec. 20), Bill Spann of the cigar industry makes the irrelevant point that teenagers don’t smoke expensive ... Read more »
Group pushing tobacco tax says it’s a popular idea
Two-thirds of Maryland voters support increasing the state’s tobacco tax, according to a new poll from the Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative, the group that pushed the dime-a-drink tax on alcohol last General Assembly session.... Read more »
Group will push for increased levy on cigars, other tobacco products
Although cigarette smoking in Maryland has declined by 32 percent in the past decade, DeMarco argues that taxes on cigars and smokeless tobacco should be on par with the state’s cigarette tax.... Read more »
Bid afoot in Maryland to raise tax on cigars and more
A survey of Maryland voters performed this fall by the polling firm Opinion Works found that 72 percent favored increasing the OTP tax and 54 “strongly” favored the hike.... Read more »
Advocates use special session to get in lawmakers’ ears
“For right now, the purpose of this launch is to let the public know that we’re out there again with this proposal,” DeMarco said. “Really, the purpose here is to demonstrate how well tobacco taxes have worked.”... Read more »
