Is the Collaborative recommending a specific amount of cigarette tax increase?
While the Collaborative members support an increase in the cigarette tax to reduce smoking and smoking related illnesses and to generate revenue to help cover the uninsured, the Collaborative has not taken an official position about the specific amount of a cigarette tax increase. However, the Collaborative strongly recommends that funds generated by a cigarette tax increase should be put in a Health Care Trust Fund to be used for health care initiatives.
