3/14/12: Higher NJ tobacco taxes might lower teen smoking rates
Read a Star Ledger editorial about keeping youth from trying alternative tobacco products by raising the NJ taxes on them to match that of cigarettes. A bill to increase all tobacco product taxes to make them equal to cigarettes is pending in the current New Jersey legislature.
GASP maintains a list of pending tobacco-control legislation for the current legislative session, as well as historical bills.
Last update: 3/14/12