Primary
Action Alert:
Please
contact the Governor and Legislators requesting that they:
- increase
the cigarette tax by 43.5 cents to bring it to $3.00 per
pack;
- increase
the licensing fees to sell cigarettes;
- re-classify
little cigars as cigarettes so as to be able to tax them
as cigarettes.
Second Action
Alert:
State
budget decisions cut the funding for the Comprehensive Tobacco
Control Program (CTCP) by $2.4, resulting in the budget decreasing
from $11 million to $8.6 million (Centers for Disease Control
recommends $119 million). Please continue to contact
Governor Jon Corzine, the Chairs of the Senate and Assembly
Budget Committees, Senator Barbara Buono and Assemblyman Louis
Greenwald, and the legislative leadership in the Senate and
Assembly to share that the CTCP needs more funding. The contact
information is:.
Honorable
Jon Corzine, Office of the Governor, PO Box 001, State House,
Trenton NJ 08625; phone 609-292-6000; to email go to www.nj.gov/governor/govmail.html
Senator
Barbara Buono, 2 Lincoln Highway, Suite 401, Edison, NJ 08820;
phone 732-205-1372 ; fax 732-205-1375; email SenBuono@njleg.org
Assemblyman
Louis D. Greenwald, 1103 Laurel Oak Road, Suite 142, Voorhees,
NJ 08043; phone 856-435-1247; fax 856-435-3849; email AsmGreenwald@njleg.org
Senate
President Richard J. Codey, 449 Mount Pleasant Avenue, West
Orange, NJ 07052; phone 973-731-6770; fax 973-731-0647; email
SenCodey@njleg.org
Assembly
Speaker Joseph J. Roberts, Brooklawn Shopping Plaza, Route
130 and Browning Road, Brooklawn, NJ 08030; phone 856-742-7600;
fax 856-742-1831; email AsmRoberts@njleg.org
When
calling or writing to the Governor and Legislators, please
request:
- Restore
funding at $11 million for the State Comprehensive Tobacco
Control Program; Support for the CTCP smoking cessation
programs help to reduce state healthcare costs in the long
run. Click
here for more talking point suggestions found in NJ
GASP's testimony given to the Committee on May 8, 2008.
Third
Action Alert:
On April
30, 2008, Atlantic City Mayor Evans signed into law the ordinance
for 100% smoke-free casino gaming floors where employees work.
To view the history of the ordinance, click
here.
Please
thank Mayor Scott Evans and Council President William Marsh
at:
City of
Atlantic City, 1301 Bacharach Blvd., Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Contact
can be made online at http://www.cityofatlanticcity.org/con_abo_contactus.asp
This page
updated July 18, 2008
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