Additionally, 2.4% of middle school students and 11.3% of high school students reported current use of two or more tobacco products, with youth polytobacco users at higher risk for continued use into adulthood 1,6,7
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The reason my bill calls for a $1.50 increase is because the data shows that a tax increase must be meaningful to produce real results in saving lives, reducing illness, protecting kids from addiction, encouraging folks to quit and decreasing taxpayer-paid tobacco-related healthcare costs