Regional
State’s cigarette tax hike
into effect today in stores
SALEM (AP) — Oregon cigarette
smokers will have to cough up an extra 8
cent# per package at most stores today
when an increase in the state's cigarette
tax takes effect,
The tax hike, approved this year by the
Oregon Legislature, pushes Oregon's
cigarette tax to a total of 27 cents a pack.
Meanwhile, the federal government's
18-cent-a-pack cigarette tax was due to
he cut to 8 cents as of midnight Monday.
Hut Congress is leaning toward keeping
it at 16 cents, though it may not act in
time to prevent u short-time drop in the
federal tax.
The 8-ennt-a-pack state tax hike that
tukes effect today is the latest of fou r
state or federal increases that have muni
than douhled smokers' tax bite sincn
1981.
Cigarette prices now are about $1.25 a
pack and $8 50 per carton of 10 packs.
With the latest tax hike, the state ex
pects to raise about $80 million on 319
million packs of cigarettes this year, ac
cording to the Legislative Revenue Of
. flee. That amount should climb to $80
million, despite an anticipated drop in
sales of a bunt It) million packs.
Though use of cigarettes has fallen by
a third since the first Oregon tax was im
posed in 1966. state tax revenue
garnered from the tax am six times what
they were then The first state cigarette
tax was 4 cents a pack.
Taxing cigarettes has become an easy
and effective way to raise money to
balance budgets.
“I think that it wouldn't hurt to keep
raising the cigarette tax every session."
said state Sen. Rod Monroe, a Portland
Democrat who chairs the Senate
Revenue Committee.
Monroe, who has a well-publicized
distaste for smoking; said other
legislators might want to wait a session
or two before raising the tax again.
But he said the cigarette tax is the
easiest source of increased tax revenue.
"It's politically acceptable, because it
was the only tax the people, have ever
voted to raise." Monroe said, referring to
a 1972 statewide vote in which Oreg
onians raised the tax by 5 cents a pack.
New state juvenile law
frustrates area officials
EUGENE (AP) — Area police of
ficials are concerned about a new
state law they say is tying their hands
and preventing them from detaining
runaway children.
They say the law, which took effect
Sept. 20, is effectively permitting
such children to remain on the
streets.
Eugene police, Springfield police
and Oregon State Police now are not
sending officers to investigate sitings
of reported runaways because once
they contact the runaway they have
no power to detain the child, police
officials said.
Causing the confusion among local
law enforcement agencies is SB300,
which spells out rules that police and
juvenile authorities must follow in
placing and keeping juveniles in
detention.
The law prohibits detention centers
from taking custody of runaways
unless they have been charged with a
crime, have fled state training schoojs
or institutions or are from out of state.
Runaway juveniles, also can be
taken into custody if their welfare or
the welfare of others may be “im
mediately endangered” by the child
being released.
Beyond that, the law gives little
power to authorities to handle the so
called "status offender.” the runaway
who has left home and is simply
wandering around a community,
local police and juvenile authorities
said.
"The old law used to entitle law en
forcement officials to detain a child
who was a runaway. When they
retooled the statute, they actually
removed the status offender,” said
Lane County Circuit Judge Pierre Van
Rysselberghe. who handles juvenile
erases.
"Ultimately, my fear is it's going to
make it very difficult for concerned
parents to track down their runaway
children," said Chuck Ryer. a super
visor at the Skipworth juvenile Home
in Eugene, which has admitted 258
runaways since )an. 1 df this year.
Some runaways are fleeing bad
home environments; others have less
crucial reasons to run. But police
agree that on the streets, runaways
come into contact with an undesirable
element.
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