Indiana hospitals and the state medical association are calling for a dollar-50 a pack tax hike on cigarettes, as part of a four-point push to get fewer Hoosiers to smoke. Indiana’s cigarette tax is the 15th-lowest in the nation. The Alliance for a Healthier Indiana wants to more than double it to just under $2.50 a pack — enough to jump to 13th highest. Community Health C-E-O Bryan Mills says raising the tax would discourage people from smoking in the first place.
