#Tobacco Settlement

The report notes that tobacco companies spend $4 to promote tobacco use for every $1 Hawaiʻi spends to prevent it. That’s just 4% of the $170.9 million that will be collected by the state this year from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes.

Governor Linda Lingle delivered her eighth and final State of the State Address today. The governor outlined priorities for the legislative session including a specific proposal to change the state’s rainy day fund, renaming and revising it to a Fiscal Stabilization Fund to shield Hawaii in future years from the need to raise taxes during […]