Initiative Petition Relating
To Tobacco Taxes
To Tobacco Taxes
Approved for Circulation for 2012 Ballot
Jefferson City, MO – Secretary of State Robin Carnahan today announced that an initiative petition relating to tobacco taxes has met state standards for circulation.
The ballot title for the petition reads:
Shall Missouri law be amended to require an additional tax of $1.00 on each package of twenty cigarettes produced by certain tobacco product manufacturers, which tax shall be paid by wholesalers and used solely for tobacco education and cessation programs and for enforcement and administration of the Master Settlement Agreement by the Missouri Attorney General?
