The Head of the North Dakota Center for Tobacco Prevention and Control Policy says that there will be very few changed in 2011. Jeanne Prom is the Director of the center says that they will not introduce legislation that would change tobacco policy in the state.
Prom said that her group will continue their education efforts. The Center is concentrating those education efforts on legislators with the hopes that there is a “groundswell in 2013” for a statewide ban on smoking in public places. In the mean time Prom says that they will also work to push for individual communities to implement bans.
Prom said that there no indication that there will be any changes to state tobacco policy “I don’t know of any legislators that are interested in putting forth a bill to increase the tobacco tax in the 2011 session.”
She says that North Dakota’s low tobacco tax makes it hard for people to stop using tobacco and it is also easy for people to start “We really feel that as long as tobacco is really cheap in North Dakota there are going to be people who find it hard to quit and easy to start” said Prom.
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