{"id":16527,"date":"2017-11-21T04:04:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/?p=16527"},"modified":"2017-11-30T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T00:05:00","slug":"hoosier-lawmakers-leery-of-boosting-smoking-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/21\/hoosier-lawmakers-leery-of-boosting-smoking-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoosier Lawmakers Leery of Boosting Smoking Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/2017\/11\/21\/hoosier-lawmakers-leery-of-boosting-smoking-age\/smoking\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/smoking.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"smoking\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/smoking.jpg?fit=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/smoking.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16528\" \/><br \/>\nLegislative leaders are leery of a proposal being backed by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to raise the state&#8217;s legal age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The statewide business group announced a lobbying agenda Monday (11\/20) for the legislative session that starts in early January. The group says Indiana needs to reduce its smoking rate that causes $3 billion in annual heath care costs in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Republican House Speaker Brian Bosma says he has trouble telling military members they can be sent to Iraq but that they can&#8217;t buy cigarettes.<\/p>\n<p>Proposals for a $1 per-pack hike in Indiana&#8217;s cigarette tax appears have failed the last two years in the Legislature. Such a tax increase is unlikely next year as lawmakers aren&#8217;t expected to consider major budget issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legislative leaders are leery of a proposal being backed by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to raise the state&#8217;s legal age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6aKAp-4iz","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 14:22:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16529,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16527\/revisions\/16529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wvih.com\/wp1\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}