Tobacco Tax Proponents: Tax Could Help Avoid Education Cuts; Prevent Teen Smoking

By Jim Williams

Santa Fe, NM – High school students from around New Mexico were at the Roundhouse Wednesday to add their voices to the support for increasing the state's cigarette tax.

As KUNM's Jim Williams reports from our capitol newsroom, the message was two-fold: stop cuts to education while at the same time discouraging kids from smoking