Sean C. Morgan, Staff Writer
Oregon Democrats in our legislature last Monday were looking for a tax increase of 10 cents per pack of cigarettes on Monday.
Gov. Kitzhaber, when he was our state’s chief executive the first time back in 1996, threw his weight behind a 30-cent tax on cigarette packs to help pay for the Oregon Health Plan.
When he and other started pushing this particular sin tax, they argued that smokers burdened…