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Columbia Cigarettes Tax Hike, School Smoking Rates

Friday, October 12th, 2012

cheap ok cigarette Columbia’s school board has come out in favor of a state ballot ordinance that would increase the state’s cigarettes tax and possibly bring money to public schools. Proposition B is a proposed tobacco tax on November’s ballot. It would increase taxes on cigs bought in Missouri, which is currently ranked 11th in smoking rates and has the lowest cigarettes tax of any state. The proposed new tax would move Missouri to 36th place in nation-wide cigarettes tax and some of the money collected would be used for to fund public schools.

Columbia School Board member Jonathan Sessions said that the money will be appreciated but he is more concerned in the influence on smoking rates.

“Evidence showed that this price hike could be a barrier to youth beginning smoking tobacco products at such an early age, and that’s my primary reason for being in support of Proposition B,” Sessions declared.

The school board approved the motion to officially be in favor of the bill by a vote of 7-1. School Board President Tom Rose dissented, argued that he felt there wasn’t enough opportunity for public comment on the issue

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Cigarette Tax Increase Balance Budget

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

cheap winston cigaretteChicago smokers could face even higher cigarettes taxes as Mayor Rahm Emanuel tries to control his proposed 2013 budget. As WBBM Newsradio Political Editor Craig Dellimore studies, Mayor Emanuel declared that his new budget will not propose raises in city property taxes, the sales tax, the gas tax, or the amusement tax as some have speculated. But when he was asked whether he would increase the cigarette tax – now the second highest tax in the nation – the mayor argued that no decision has been made yet.

“Anything that relates, if we do consider the cigarettes tax, it has to invest in kids’s health,” Emanuel confessed.

The city faces a $298 million budget decrease.

At present, the combined city and state cigarette taxes in Chicago is almost $5.67. The only city with a higher city and state cigarettes tax is New York, which is merely 18 cents higher.

If the city does increase cigarette taxes, it would come on the heels of a $1 per package state cigarette taxes hike that took effect on July 1, the Tribune wrote. That increase has driven the price of a package of cigs above the $11 mark in many places.

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Imperial Tobacco Ex-President Confessions

Friday, April 20th, 2012

cheaper plugarul cigaretteThe ex-president of Imperial Tobacco Limited Company confessed in a confidential interview that he not consider and not accept the fact that smoking cigarettes is a really very serious health issue.  Then after a few months later he added that there is not arguments that tobacco smoking can causes disease. In a 1987 memo, Jean-Louis Mercier, along with Wilmat Tennyson, Imperial’s marketing man at the time, conceded that the cigarettes industry had lost the fight “on four critical fronts”: health, social price, social acceptance and secondhand smoke.

The memo concluded the tobacco industry should shift the censure to the federal state government.

Testifying Thursday at the trial in which smokers from Quebec are claiming $27 billion in damages from Canada’s big three Cigarettes Companies, Mercier repeated that the government, not the tobacco companies, was an error.

“Personally, I declared that if it is true that smoking kills 32,000 people a year, I don’t understand one thing why we sell cigarettes,” Mercier added in a large courtroom filled with lawyers on the top floor of Montreal’s courthouse. “Why does the government permit it?”

Mercier also reported that the gov, which has made billions of dollars over the years from cigarettes sales tax, should have put some of that money into researching how the negative effects of smoking could be reduced.

 

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Tobacco Business Worry, Cigarette Taxes

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

tax free camel cigarettesNeighbors in the town of Bridgewater are keeping a close on eye on new tobacco products taxes that they will pay soon. The cigarettes tax is the most disputable proposed tax and small tobacco business owners are not happy about the new changes. As John Marklin, the co-owner of Bridgewater Food Supermarket, stocked the cigs at his shop, he was reminded of a 20-cent tax that may soon be added to cigarettes prices. He is afraid that because of it he will lost the customers.

“We have positive experience in knowing, that when you do have a tax like this, it will eventually reduce Camel cigarettes sales. As a retailer, we are always interested about that,” declared Marklin.

As town leaders reported at Tuesday’s public hearing, they want to make this easy on their citizens. With a cigarette tax, they can get more and more money off of clients.

“Not every tax do we want paid by the inhabitants of Bridgewater,” explained Superintendent of the Town of Bridgewater Bob Holton. “We desire some of the taxes paid by those coming through the town, who use our streets, use our parks, use our town services.”

That still interests small tobacco business owners. A lot of times when clients walk into a shop, they are looking to purchase not just cigs, but other objects as well. What shop owners are worried about is if there is a tax on their tobacco product, clients will head elsewhere and they will not visit Bridgewater Shops to purchase the items that they desire.

 

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Smoking control in China, Cigarettes Tax

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

discount ok cigaretteAttending the 11th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing, Minister Miao Wei on Sunday explained to the media that tobacco tax consists of turnover, income and consumption taxes, and the government is looking into whether the measure will have an effect on China’s smokers of 350 million. Miao’s comments came two days after Minister of Health Chen Zhu announced that China is planning to raise taxes on mid- and low-end cigarettes, following the tax hike on high-end ones in 2009 that failed to meet targeted reductions of the country’s smoking population.

In other efforts, Miao said the health warnings on cigarette packs are being moved from the side to the front, and the government is planning other similar measures to campaign against smoking.

In 2006,China joined the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “Framework Convention on Tobacco Control” (FCTC). The following year, the State Council established a group led by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to promote smoking control in China.

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China May Increase Cigarettes Price to Cut Tobacco Consumption

Monday, March 12th, 2012

cheap lm cigaretteChina is studying the possibility of increasing prices and tax hikes to curb tobacco consumption, a senior official with the country’s tobacco use regulator said. The effects of raising tobacco prices in order to curb tobacco use need to be tested by practice, given that tobacco prices and the tax on tobacco are already at a high level in China. Public comments are welcome, said Miao Wei, Minister of Industry and InformationTechnology (MIIT) and a deputy to the National People’s Congress (NPC).

Miao earlier admitted that more efforts are needed to control tobacco use. He repeated his stance Sunday by saying that it is important to reduce the number of smokers and the amount of tobacco they use, considering China now has 350 million people smoking.

International studies have found that when tobacco prices are increased by one percent, the number of smokers dwindles by about 0.4 percent.

However, tax doesn’t necessarily curb cigarette use. The retail price of cigarettes didn’t go up accordingly following a six percent tax hike in May 2009 asHowever,tax doesn’t necessarily curb cigarette use. The retail price of cigarettes didn’t go up accordingly following a six percent tax hike in May 2009 as the State Tobacco Monopoly Bureau, the major pricing department of tobacco products and an affiliate of MIIT, absorbed the tax hike and maintained stable prices.

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Tobacco Market, New Cigarette Brands Changes

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

cheap dunhill cigarette“The first phase is to get the government to change the excise tax. Once that’s finished, the second phase is to complete investments in farm, factories and distribution,” BAT General Manager James Lafferty told BusinessWorld at the sidelines of the company’s launch. “We are working on a long-term vision in near-term business cycles, so we’ll work on the timelines and figures when we get to that point,” he continued. The company, which handles Lucky Strike, Dunhill cigaretes and Vogue cigarettes, already spent P1 billion to re-establish its presence in the local market while advocating for the Finance department-backed House Bill (HB) 5727 which abolishes the multi-tiered tax system in favor of a unitary model.

Under the current system, cigarette brands that have been around the local market since 1996 or earlier are slapped with tax rates based on retail prices for that year, while brands that arrived thereafter are charged based on current retail prices which have risen significantly due to inflation.

Consequently, brands pegged at 1996 prices are only taxed P12, while newer entrants pegged at recent, higher prices are taxed P28.30.

The uneven playing field created by the 1996 tax structure thus led to the pullout of BAT cigarettes in 2009.

“We are subsidizing the price of our cigarettes right now until the new excise tax system is in place,” Mr. Lafferty said.

But such a dire measure to keep their cigarettes affordable is only meant to keep the firm in the country long enough to fight for a more leveled out playing field.

“We don’t know whether we’ll stay in the Philippines or not. There are 40 possible scenarios on the excise tax reform, and we haven’t planned for each of them,” the executive explained.

In the meantime, the firm is focused on standard strategies for marketing the three BAT cigarette brands through point-of-purchase interactions with smokers in bars, clubs and convenience stores.

“We are willing to work within the confines of the law,” Mr Lafferty added, commenting on the advertising restrictions placed on tobacco firms in the Philippines.

“We acknowledge that the product poses health risks. It’s part of the game,” he said.

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