SB 362 Increasing the Tobacco Tax by $1 per pack of cigarettes is pending in Senate Finance Committee. Action is needed on Monday to ensure its passage this session!
The bill will help keep thousands of West Virginians from becoming smokers and make our state much healthier. The bill will save lives. It will also generate needed funds for public health priorities for the state.
The Coalition for a Tobacco-Free West Virginia is urging voters to call members of the Senate Finance Committee and ask them to pass SB 362.
There is the possibility that the provisions of SB 362 will be amended into SB 566 which deals with OPEB. The Coaltion for Tobacco-Free West Virginia is urging passage of the tobacco tax on its own merits as an important public health bill and feels it should not be drawn into a debate on employee and retiree benefits.
Please call the members of Senate Finance Committee and urge passage of SB-362 as it is currently written. Contact numbers for these members can be found here by clicking the members name.
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