Your Turn: feedback on vaccine, cigarette taxes & heroic couple
WWNY Your Turn: feedback on vaccine, cigarette taxes & heroic couple By Diane Rutherford | December 21, 2020 at 2:53 PM EST - Updated December 21 at 9:49 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) -
The St. Lawrence Health System doctor who was the first in the region to get the COVID vaccine urges everyone to get the shot when itâs available:
Iâll take my chance of getting it with a 99% recovery rate vs taking a vaccine that was developed in 10 months.
Amanda Ganley
Iâm sorry to say it, but all you people saying you wonât have this injection sound ridiculous and selfish to me.
Group pushes for higher cigarette taxes in NY
WWNY Group pushes for higher cigarette taxes in NY By Garrett Domblewski | December 17, 2020 at 3:57 PM EST - Updated December 17 at 9:46 PM
ALBANY, N.Y. (WWNY) - A group of anti-tobacco and public health organizations is pushing for higher taxes on cigarettes in New York.
It has been 10 years since the last such tax hike.
According to a release from the Cancer Action Network, the group sent a letter to Governor Cuomo, calling for at least a $1 per pack increase.
The group says that increase would cause more than 60,000 Americans to quit smoking.
Anti-Tobacco Groups Want Cigarette Tax Hike PUBLISHED 11:14 AM ET Dec. 15, 2020 PUBLISHED 11:14 AM EST Dec. 15, 2020
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A coalition of anti-tobacco and public health organizations on Tuesday called for the first tax increase on cigarettes in 10 years by hiking the levy at least $1 per pack in the coming state budget.
The groups made their push to Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a letter released Tuesday morning as the Legislature is also mulling the potential for increasing taxes on the rich in the coming weeks.
The groups, which include the American Heart Associaiton, the Cancer Action Network and the American Lung Association, said the tax would lead to an estimated 61,800 adult smokers quitting.