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Jeanne Prom,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the center’s director, said the agency intends to concentrate on local efforts to curb smoking in 2011 rather than push the Legislature to toughen North Dakota’s anti-smoking law or boost tobacco taxes.
“In order to have anything happen to the tobacco tax, we need legislative support, and we feel that we need to do more education on that,” Prom said. “As far as 2011 goes, our efforts are going to be continuing to work on local smoke-free laws and continue to educate on the costs of tobacco, which we all pay.”
The AP survey showed little support for boosting North Dakota’s cigarette tax to $2 a pack,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], although five senators and 16 House members said a smaller increase might be acceptable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with $1 a pack the most frequently mentioned figure.
Twenty-six senators said they would not raise North Dakota’s cigarette tax to $2 a pack, while 10 favored the proposal and two were undecided. In the House, opposition was stronger, with 59 representatives saying they did not support the increase, compared to 13 who did and four who said they were undecided.
North Dakota’s 44-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes has not been increased since 1993 and ranks 46th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a Washington, D.C. advocacy organization. Montana’s tax is $1.70 a pack, while South Dakota’s is $1.53 and Minnesota’s is $1.57; the national average is $1.45 a pack.
North Dakota is one of three states that has not raised its tobacco tax in at least 10 years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The other two are California and Missouri, which has the nation’s lowest cigarette tax at 17 cents a pack.