{"id":310,"date":"2007-02-09T07:24:04","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2007-02-09T07:24:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:24:04","slug":"competing-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Competing Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"KNS: Bredesen cigarette tax\" href=\"http:\/\/search.knoxnews.com\/sp?eId=2&#038;ecId=20201090&#038;rNum=4&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.knoxnews.com%2Fkns%2Fstate%2Farticle%2F0%2C1406%2CKNS_348_5331166%2C00.html\">On Monday<\/a>, Governor Bredesen proposed a 40-cent per pack increase in the cigarette tax, with the estimated $200 million in new revenues to be directed to improvements in education funding.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"KNS: Bredesen supports smoking ban\" href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/kns\/state\/article\/0,1406,KNS_348_5339003,00.html\">he announced<\/a> his support for a statewide ban on workplace smoking.  This would seem to include restaurants, bars, hotels, and such  &#8212; the few public places where smoking is sometimes (but not always) permitted, at the discretion of the business owner.<\/p>\n<p>Neither concept would seem objectionable to non-smokers, who are decidedly in the majority.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t heard any objections to the tax, even from smokers.\u00c2\u00a0 But the simultaneous ban creates a problem: banning indoor smoking will unquestionably reduce smoking in general, which would lower the revenues from the cigarette tax.<\/p>\n<p>What happens then for the funding promised to education?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Governor Bredesen proposed a 40-cent per pack increase in the cigarette tax, with the estimated $200 million in new revenues to be directed to improvements in education funding. Yesterday, he announced his support for a statewide ban on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=310\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}