Indiana’s current cigarette tax is 99.5 cents per pack, and a perennial proposal would raise it to $2 a pack. (Getty Images)
When a proposal has both a fiscal and health upside you would think it would be popular. But pushes to raise Indiana’s cigarette tax have faltered for years. Now is the time to pull the trigger.
“Indiana is an unhealthy state, and one of the big culprits is Hoosiers’ high tobacco usage. This impacts the productivity of our workforce, healthcare costs and future economic prosperity in our state,” said Vanessa Green Sinders, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s president and CEO…