She is a state senator who is running for the senate seat that FrankenFrist is vacating. She and Harold Ford, Jr. will be addressing the TN Federation of Democratic Women at a luncheon during our convention next weekend. I am working on a rough draft for a letter that I'm writing to her to kinda feel her out prior to hearing her speak next Sat.
With that in mind, which issues are important to you and which questions would you like to have answers to?
It is my understanding that Senator Kurita's recent bill to raise the state cigarette tax failed within the Senate --- my question to Kurita is something as the following:
Many Tennesseans across the state viewed your failed cigarette tax bill merely as yet more legislation to generate new revenue --- could you possibly expand the scope of your future efforts at increasing the state cigarette tax by coupling it with the environmental issue of reducing cigarette filter litter across Tennessee?
To achieve this end, I would suggest that filtered cigarettes be taxed at a significantly higher rate than non-filtered cigarettes in order to effect a shift of consumer demand for filtered cigarettes toward non-filtered in order to reduce the problem of cigarette filter litter in Tennessee.
There are no health benefits that accure to smokers who choose to smoke filtered cigarettes. And depending upon which sources that you check, discarded cigarettes filters have little or none biodegradable characteristics that will cause these materials to break down it the soil or water.
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