Governor John Baldacci of Maine came out with a resolution: increase the taxes on cigarettes, collate the money and donate it to the state’s national health program. This is indeed beneficial in two ways: first, the state will have more money to fund their health programs and second, smokers will be encouraged to quit their habit of smoking. Major health groups in Maine conducted their own survey and they stated that more than the majority of Maine constituents are in favor of the increase. The said major health groups are lobbying that the increase be made to a dollar instead of the proposed 50 cent per pack.

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