Funding Roads with Cigarette Taxes on the Ballot in 2015.

Missouri Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association is promoting an initiative to significantly raise tobacco taxes. The details:

  • A proposed 135% tax increase
  • The funding will allow for top priority safety projects to be done like unsafe bridges and roads
  • The funding would be effective 1/1/17

WGEM.COM: Proposed tobacco tax hike in Missouri could help area roads

St.Louis Post- Dispatch