Cigarette tax logjam ridiculous this session

Sid Salter offers a scathing rebuke of the Mississippi Legislature for failing to reach a compromise on the state cigarette tax increase. In this column, he refers to the strong public support for an increase in the tax. Indeed, findings from the 2008 Mississippi Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control demonstrate that less than 30% of Mississippi adults are opposed to a one dollar increase in the state cigarette tax.