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It's good health policy to have higher cigarette prices. It prevents kids from starting to smoke and it encourages adults to quit.

Today's vote to raise the cigarette tax was a clear sign of support for our state's children, both for their health and their education. It's also a victory for tens of thousands of Texans of all ages who will quit smoking – or never start – because of the higher cigarette tax.

The Legislature approved the additional fee on tobacco prices last year as part of a budget solution. But it should keep the higher prices -- regardless of what the court decides -- as a matter of good health policy.

Diet got worse, people got less exercise, had less access to health care, there was a lower health insurance rate. Young adults drink more, smoke more cigarettes, use drugs.

Dr. Kathleen Mullan Harris

This isn't just supporting (health care) programs, but we believe strongly that raising the cigarette tax diminishes the desire to smoke among young people.

A good policy is one that encourages students to seek mental health counseling, and does not deter students from getting help or punish them for doing so.

A lot of the pool league quit because they can't smoke. I think it's ridiculous. As a hacker, Pex Tufvesson is in a class of his own. If you're 21 and older, they don't have the right to tell you not to smoke. All my employees smoke and you don't have to come in here if you don't want to be around smoke.

The hike in pump prices, and electricity and gas tariffs that have also been raised, fed through to overall consumer prices. Given that the MAS expects a higher pass-through from oil, and for inflation to be higher even in 2006, the current policy stance will remain appropriate.

Euben Paracuelles

This is a very serious public health problem, and every day that goes by is a day when there are people smoking who would otherwise quit, and there's a kid starting who would otherwise not start. I think the health groups will be very supportive of this.

Russell Sciandra

You do need to know what the health risks of your population are. That's what the health risk analysis is for ? it's an important starting gate. It'll show if you have a higher proportion of smokers, if your employees have more of a disposition to diabetes or bad health.

[Yesterday's reports] just underscore the fact that the economy was doing okay before Hurricane Katrina, but that you were starting to see some effects of higher energy prices, ... Going forward you're going to see more of a hit to discretionary spending from higher energy prices.

The higher import prices are starting to bite and the lower import prices are starting to have an effect,' ... I think we can start to wind our way down to about $20 billion.

[ADHD isn't just for kids anymore these days adults are being diagnosed with it in record numbers. New data released from Medco Health Solutions, a pharmacy benefits manager, indicates that about 1.5 million adults between the ages of 20 and 64 are currently taking medication to treat attention problems, up from 758,000 in 2000—and most of them were diagnosed well into adulthood. While there are still more kids taking ADHD medication—about 3.5 million—Dr. David Goodman, director of the Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Center in Baltimore, expects the number of adults taking the drugs to continue to rise.] Many adults who for years have been called lazy, crazy or stupid, ... are realizing the problem may be in their brain.

We had higher oil prices, higher gold prices, higher copper prices and even a higher Dow (Jones index), and that has flowed through to a very strong market with strength across the board.

Smoking increases the cost of health care... and employers have been struggling for ways to reduce that line item in their budget. Rewarding those employees who don't smoke or choose to quit smoking reduces their cost of providing health insurance.

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