Should vaping be taxed like cigarettes? Some Ohio advocates think so

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Public health advocates are lobbying for tobacco taxes on vape wholesale supply products, a bigger pot of money for cessation and prevention programs, and a statewide law raising the tobacco purchase age to 21.

Smoking is a major public health problem in Ohio and some advocates say more could be done to curb use and save lives. About 1 in 5 Ohioans smoke and tobacco-related diseases kill far more Ohioans every year than opioids — about 20,180 smoking attributable deaths versus 3,497 opioid overdose deaths in 2016.American Cancer Society lobbyist Jeff Stephens said he is hopeful that Gov. Mike DeWine will include some of the changes in his two-year state budget, which is expected to be released by March 15.Ohio spends $12.5 million on cessation and prevention efforts each year, down from $35 million a decade ago. And while the state places a sales tax and a $1.60 per pack excise tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes, e-cigarettes don’t face an excise tax and other tobacco products, such as chew and snuff, are taxed at 17 percent of wholesale.More than half of Ohioans support taxing e-cigarettes like a pack of cigarettes, according to a 2018 survey by Ohio Health Issues Poll. Those numbers also represent bipartisan support, with 61 percent of Democrats and 56 percent of Republicans polled saying they favor placing an excise tax on e-cigarettes.There’s plenty of research that evidence-based policies drive down smoking, including increasing the price of cigarettes and tobacco products, said Amy Bush Stevens of Health Policy Institute of Ohio, which does research for state agencies and policy makers.“There’s definitely decades of research that shows the more you increase the price, the more you reduce tobacco consumption,” Stevens said.

Smoking also contributes to Ohio’s high infant mortality rate, Stephens said. The national smoking rate for pregnant women is 7.2 percent while the rate in Ohio is 14.4 percent, he said.
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