Maryland health group tries again for $1 tax hike on cigarettes

The Maryland Health Care For All Coalition is calling for another tobacco tax increase. The group wants the state to raise the tax on cigarettes by a dollar, to $3, coalition president Vincent DeMarco said Wednesday outside the State House in Annapolis.

The coalition is calling for a proportionate tax increase on other tobacco products, which are taxed wholesale.

The tax increase would build on previous increases to the tobacco tax and play an important role in funding anti-smoking programs for…