State Cigarette Fund Childrens Health Care

The Healthy Kids Oregon coalition on Thursday launched a campaign in support of a state ballot measure that would increase cigarette taxes to provide health care for more than Oregon children that are without health insurance, the Oregonian reports.

Coalition members include the American Cancer Society; the American Heart Association; the American Lung Association; Oregon PTA; Children First for Oregon; several unions; and physicians, nurses and other health care advocates Health Insurance.

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