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San Diego Unified Board Backs Cig Tax
I am tired of smelling cigarette smoke everywhere I go. Since they can't smoke indoors anymore, they light up on the sidewalks and everybody gets to share their suicidal habit. I would like to see them raise the tax rate on a single pack of cigarettes an additional $15.00 to help stop smoking altogether, and to help our state save our share of the nearly $100 Billion a year that it now costs the USA for smoking related healthcare expenditures. Tobacco-Related Monetary Costs in the USA *Total annual public and private health care expenditures caused by smoking: $96 billion * Annual Federal and state government smoking-caused Medicaid payments: $30.9 billion [Federal share: $17.6 billion per year. States’ share: $13.3 billion] * Federal government smoking-caused Medicare expenditures each year: $27.4 billion * Other federal government tobacco-caused health care costs (e.g. through VA health care): $9.6 billion— May 7, 2012 6:41 p.m.