PHOENIX - An 80-cent-a-pack tax on cigarettes approved by voters in 2006 to fund early childhood development programs is coming up short as people are smoking less.
So, First Things First, which distributes the money, is asking lawmakers to create a levy on vaping products, hoping to make up about $100 million a year in lost revenues. And the quasi-government agency has commissioned a poll designed to convince legislators that the public would support the move.
The organization has its work cut out for it.
