There is this idea that people are making a choice to smoke and that if we nudge them by increasing taxes, they will make a choice not to smoke, Ward said
Tobacco workers, too, protested the ban and targeted individual senators who supported the bill, including former Sen
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"That said," she continued, "the tax increase was too low to achieve significant health benefits, so we have lots of work to do to help legislators and the public understand the evidence showing that significant tobacco tax increases really do reduce smoking and save lives, but that much less than a $1-per-pack increase will not move us toward that goal." And although the tax increase is estimated to generate about $132 million in 2019, the real goal, according to Hackbarth, was to discourage Kentuckians from smoking, therefore improving the overall health of the state
