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he 2006 Tobacco Tax

Resolution is repro-

duced below. This reso-
lution is being circulated by a
growing collaboration of tradi-
tional (American Cancer
Society, Coalition for a
Tobacco Free Vermont, Heart
& Lung Associations) and non-
traditional anti-tobacco organi-
zations, like Outright Vermont!

Essentially,
this resolution
is an impor-
tant piece of a
larger cam-
paign to
address, pre-
vent and stop
tobacco use
here in
Vermont. Our
hope is to
have the
tobacco tax
increased on
both ciga-
rettes and
chewing .
tobacco by
the end of the
2006 legisla-
tive session.
(The last A
increase was
in 2003 for
cigarettes, but
other tobacco
products
haven’t had a
tax increase in
10 years!) It
has been '
proven that
one of the
effective ways
to decrease
smoking rates
across the
board, is to V
continue to
make the

tobacco products out of the
price range of those who might tion education, outreach mate-
use them. Plus, the revenue
raised by the tobacco tax can
and does get returned to tobac-
co prevention efforts. These
efforts help round out the holis— al orientation or gender may
tic approach that is needed to
complete prevention work (quit according to the most recent

 

uri‘ht’s New
  Year Resolution

Youth Risk Behavior Survey
results (2005) that queer youth
are two times more likely to
smoke than their heterosexual
peers? And that overall, more
than 1/2 of all sexually active
queer youth in Vermont
smoke?

For these reasons and many
more, Outright Vermont is part
of this collaboration and it is

 

. Coalition for 3 Tobacco Free Vermont
Resolution to Reduce Tobacco Use and Improve the Health of Vermonters

WI-l'ERF.AS, Every year, I600 Vermont children lxxome ’ "cred to tobacco and H.000 kids under 18 alive today
in Ven....... will die prematurely from. ' ing‘; and

WXIHIQEAS, increasing Vermont’; cigarette tax by M cent: to $2.00 wanlrk significantly reduce the number of
yomzh who smoke, would save :1 pmjected SI623 million in long term health can: costs. and would gamvide

1*" ‘mm. ,' ' ‘,,an ‘$19.5 million in FY2007": and

WI l1£RliAS. currently 12% of high school boys (up from 8% in 2003) and 2% of high school giris {tip from 1% in
2003) use chew/spit ' . 3 ‘ V ~

\lr‘HliRl:'AS_. cumznlly (lay, 1.4.-sbian, Bisexual mail Questioning (GLBQ)yuuth inc inure than two 1:inu:s more likely
to snoku than their heterosexual pours‘;

WHEREAS, currently lire. smoking rate oflow income Vermonters is Signifmantly higher lhan Vcmwnkzrs in p
higher income groups. and continues to rise where other populalionsxm: dmnminf; ' ' ~" ‘"3’ ‘ "

WHEREAS, Vermont has the
and Quebec; and

Wlll~'.RF..v\S. fund: from the tax increase would support state programs that will advance the health ‘of all
Vernmirters. , ' -

' l()VVCl\‘f cigurettz: tax in the region including all ofNcw England, New York

Bli Fl"?! iiilu-Zl-'t)Rl-2 l{l“S(')l,Vl-ll). that ti»: ‘ . '9 ‘ nrganiration endorses:
0 Increasing the Vermont cigarette tax by S1 cent: and all other tobacco products ((rrv) tax f‘mm4l'.‘/u m
90% of wholesale price (fin-st increase since H195); '
I Using money mixed by this ‘ ‘ in the cigarette and other tobacco taxes to fund state pwgruxns llml
will advance the health ofvermunt citizens.

BE IT l-'UR‘I'.l~ll;Tll.  that the ‘ ' organization will: I
0 lnibm its mlcmlxzls am}, ifpossiblv, Ihu gcncml public ofits ‘ oflhis Resolution; and,
- lnfmm the Ouvernm and nmnbem oflhc Legislature ol'i1s endorsement of this Resolution, to the canon!
pcnuilled by law, and urge its constituency to do so.

Signed on

by
(dale) (autllolizcdsigltmum)
Name of (‘n G '

Number of Mszmbclx (if applicable):
(Sonnet Vernon:

Contact Person’: email:
Phone: . flue:
‘Mailing .* ’ ‘

Please return to: Coalition for I Totmcen Free Vermont
I'.0. Box I460, Wfllsston, VT 05495 Fax: 872-6399, or email at: tnfnzirfigahaecnfmcvemmntnrg

ftiaunpaigu 1'urTub:au:o- Free Kits, “Ilse Toll o$'Tub:u.-m its Verizmist”, 2005

5 Campaign for ‘tobacco-r‘mc Kitfs. “Benefits from {I Cigarette ‘lax increase in Vermont. 2005
“ Vermont \’rmI’o ‘Rial: Behuvisvr Ssnveys, 2903 elrui 2605

f \’cnxmrsL Ytmlls Risk Beixaviur Survey 2005

Weunont Behavioral Risk Factor: Surveillance Systmr 199X—2W=t Deco/rite 24105

my hope that the many folks"
who support Outright will get
rials, etc.). their organizations and busi-

I am sure I don’t need to tell nesses that you work for/with
you that tobacco use is harmful to sign onto this resolution.
no matter what your age, sexu- Simply print it out and mail or
email it back to Tobacco Free
Vermont.

Thanks everyone. V

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