I-Team special report: ‘Taxing Tobacco’
“We saw an increase in tax go up 139%,” John Hussar, legislative ambassador for the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network.
California smokers are paying one of the highest taxes in the country. That’s all thanks to Proposition 56 which went into effect in April 2016. Proposition 56 has nearly tripled California’s tobacco tax.
I-Team investigator John White takes a look at whether the tobacco tax hike is working, watch the special report ‘Taxing Tobacco’ this Thursday at 6 p.m. on News Channel 3.
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