Poll: 62% back boosting cigarette tax $1
Cigarette tax poll
A poll for a 28-group coalition called Hoosiers for a Healthier Indiana found widespread support for raising Indiana's cigarette tax by as much as $1 per pack so long as the money goes to health and anti-smoking programs. A few of the poll questions and responses:
Should Indiana's cigarette tax be raised by a dollar to fund health and anti-smoking programs?
• 50 percent strongly favor.
• 12 percent somewhat favor.
• 8 percent somewhat oppose.
• 27 percent strongly oppose.
If you had to choose one tax to raise to fund health and anti-smoking programs, which would you choose?
• 69 percent cigarette tax.
• 14 percent sales tax.
• 4 percent income tax.
• 2 percent property tax.
• 9 percent none of the above.
• 2 percent don't know/refused.
If cigarette taxes go up by $1, with the money going to health and anti-smoking programs, would you make it a point to vote in favor or against a legislator based on this vote?
• 46 percent definitely in favor.
• 35 percent no difference.
• 17 percent definitely against.
• 2 percent refused.
