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flag Iowa proposes new tobacco taxes to fight cancer, ignoring major causes like farm pollution.

flag Iowa lawmakers, including Governor Kim Reynolds, have proposed raising the cigarette tax to $2.01 per pack and imposing a 15% tax on vaping to address the state’s high cancer rates, with revenue funding cancer research. flag The plan does not target smoking cessation directly and overlooks major cancer risks like radon exposure and nitrate pollution from agricultural runoff. flag Studies show 80% of Iowa’s nitrate contamination comes from farming, and long-term exposure to even low levels may increase cancer risk, yet no legislation has been introduced to reduce agricultural runoff.

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