President Obama has signed the State Children's Health Insurance Program into law
This landmark piece of legislation includes a federal tax increase of 62 cents per pack of cigarettes. The federal cigarette tax has thus been increased to $1.01 per pack, and the SCHIP law will include a tax increase on other tobacco products.
It is expected that the approval of this law will allow 4 million more children to be eligable for SCHIP, and the increased taxes are expected to generate $71.4 billion in revenues over a five year period.
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