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flag Iowa advocates push for $1.50 cigarette tax hike to $2.86 and expand tobacco taxes to combat youth vaping and cancer.

flag A coalition of Iowa health advocates is pushing for a $1.50 increase in the cigarette tax to $2.86 per pack and extending the tax to all tobacco and vaping products, aiming to reduce youth vaping and smoking, generate revenue for public health, and address Iowa’s high cancer rate. flag The proposal also seeks to extend smokefree air laws to casinos and maintain funding for cessation programs. flag State lawmakers are considering the plan ahead of the legislative session, with advocates emphasizing the link between tobacco use and preventable disease.

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