{"id":13430,"date":"2013-02-15T13:03:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=13430"},"modified":"2013-02-15T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T18:25:45","slug":"hassan-makes-case-for-raising-cigarette-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2013\/02\/15\/hassan-makes-case-for-raising-cigarette-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassan Makes Case For Raising Cigarette Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13431\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Hassan wants to raise the cigarette tax above its original level\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3222346457_21d0e36079.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13431\" title=\"Cigarette is no Good for You!\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3222346457_21d0e36079-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3222346457_21d0e36079-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2013\/02\/3222346457_21d0e36079.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Larding \/ Flickr Creative Commons<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hassan wants to raise the cigarette tax above its original level<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Governor Maggie Hassan is looking to raise New Hampshire\u2019s cigarette tax.\u00a0 In her state budget address, she pitched a\u00a0 30-cent increase as good public health policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew Hampshire has the highest youth smoking rate in the Northeast, with 19.8 percent of high school students who smoke cigarettes,&#8221; Hassan said.\u00a0 &#8220;Cigarette taxes nationwide have proven to be one of the most effective ways to prevent youth smoking.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n\n<p>She also said it will raise $40 million in revenue without compromising cross-border sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy budget proposes reversing the cigarette tax cut and increasing the tax by an additional 20 cents. Which will still keep our cigarette tax below those of our surrounding states,\u201d Hassan said to heavy applause.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans cut the cigarette tax by ten-cents in the current state budget.\u00a0 That cut is set to expire automatically because revenues have fallen short of targets.\u00a0 If Hassan\u2019s full proposed increase is adopted, New Hampshire\u2019s tax would stand at $1.98 per pack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Maggie Hassan is looking to raise New Hampshire\u2019s cigarette tax.\u00a0 In her state budget address, she pitched a\u00a0 30-cent increase as good public health policy. \u201cNew Hampshire has the highest youth smoking rate in the Northeast, with 19.8 percent of high school students who smoke cigarettes,&#8221; Hassan said.\u00a0 &#8220;Cigarette taxes nationwide have proven to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":13431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474],"tags":[446,403,540,479,494,521],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}