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Public-health groups push Senate to restore tobacco-prevention funding, revive vapor retailer licensing and reintroduce cigarette tax hike
Summary
Public-health organizations and local health educators urged the Senate to restore the governor’s proposed increase to the tobacco prevention fund, reinstate a vapor-retailer licensing program, and place a proposed cigarette tax increase back into HB 96 to reduce youth tobacco use.
Public-health advocates, county health educators and cancer-prevention groups told the Senate Health Committee that House-passed cuts to tobacco-prevention funding and removal of proposed tobacco tax increases would undermine efforts to reduce youth use and hold retailers accountable.
Funding and policy requests: Leah Baylor (Clark County Combined Health District) and Dustin Hoelfinger (American Heart Association) urged restoration of…
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