BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Legislators dove right in to the big issues on their first real day of work this session. One is a proposed tax hike on cigarettes and the governor himself testified in front ...

To address youth smoking, Massachusetts should raise taxes on tobacco products and ban flavored tobacco products, according to advocates and legislators. “The data is there,” Rep. Marjorie Decker said ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – Health advocacy groups see an opportunity with the legislative session to get a long-sought cigarette tax hike in a state that has one of the lowest tobacco taxes in the ...