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(INDIANAPOLIS) Health advocates are making their final public pitch for a cigarette tax hike. Senate Republicans will unveil their version of a state budget next week, with a final bill expected two weeks after that. So far, they haven’t tipped their hand on what they’ll do with the cigarette tax. President Pro Tem Rod Bray (R-Martinsville) has said the House budget’s 50-cents-a-pack increase may be either too big or too small too big to satisfy opponents, and too small to accomplish the goal of discouraging people from smoking. Members of a coalition of health and business groups have argued for doubling the current one-dollar tax to two dollars, or tripling it to three dollars. Bill Waltz with the Indiana Chamber says the goal is a healthier state, not more money but he says doubling the tax would bring the state an estimated half-billion dollars to put toward health costs.

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