Gore Supports Hike in Cigarette Costs
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Hiking cigarette prices by $1.10 a pack over five years would cut teenage smoking by an average of 42% and prevent nearly 1 million premature deaths, Vice President Al Gore predicts. Campaigning for the Clinton administration’s beleaguered anti-tobacco legislation, Gore drew on a new Treasury Department analysis that predicts that a pocketbook attack would discourage many young people from taking the first puff.
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