Fights Over Tobacco Tax Hikes Heat Up Across U.S.
“They claim the tobacco tax is a way to stop people from smoking, but then they hit vaping with a huge tax,” Steve Greenhut, Western Region director for the R Street Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Their thinking is the same people are going to stop vaping, and vaping is one of the main ways people quite smoking, so it’s hugely counterproductive from a policy standpoint.
