Excise taxes on tobacco sold to non-Indians have been a source of dispute for years.

The program expansion was to have been funded by sharply increasing federal excise taxes on tobacco products.

Excise taxes on tobacco could also be effective.

But he said he decided not to fight the excise tax on tobacco and distilled spirits "because it was a done deal."

In 1794, secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton introduced the first ever federal excise tax on tobacco products.

Amends the state constitution to increase the excise tax on tobacco cigarettes by $2.60 per pack, in order to fund healthcare expansion.

Thomas Lauria, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute, a trade association, said the industry is opposed to any increase in the Federal excise tax on tobacco.

The tobacco industry and antismoking forces have renewed hostilities over industry claims that a higher excise tax on tobacco products would devastate large parts of the economy.

Earlier this year, the New York state legislature passed a law intended to force collection of excise taxes on tobacco and fuel sold by Native Americans to non-Indians.

As possible sources of money, the mayors suggested the creation of a huge AIDS fund, financed through an increase in Federal excise taxes on tobacco and liquor.

Mr. Vallone said the increase would be rescinded if the State Legislature approves an excise tax on tobacco and liquor sold in the city, raising an estimated $80 million.

Beat Deadline by 11 Days This evening the Assembly approved several new taxes to help balance the budget, including increased excise taxes on tobacco products and alcoholic beverages.

But Mr. Vallone added that the tax would be rescinded if a pending excise tax on tobacco and alcohol sold in the city was approved by the State Legislature this session.

With state budget deficits soaring into the billions, 20 states increased their excise taxes on tobacco last year, among them Tennessee, the fifth-largest tobacco producing state, which raised it to 20 cents a pack from 13 cents.

Now anti-smoking advocates, with financial support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J., and the American Cancer Society, among other organizations, are pushing the Federal and state governments for higher excise taxes on tobacco.

Thus, the excise tax on tobacco is allocated according to average expenditure by income range (from survey data), and the gift, estate, and death taxes are allocated to households with capital income whose total income exceeded $25 000 (in 1968).

Further, removing the sign would appear consistent with the current climate of growing intolerance for smoking that includes rising state taxes on tobacco products, the likelihood of a new Federal excise tax on tobacco products and greater restrictions on where people can smoke.

We in Europe have quite a substantial excise tax on tobacco products, but as I know from the experience of dealing with the Philip Morris agreement and the Japan Tobacco agreement, this involves largely the same corporations, which are our main producers of tobacco.

It increased - excise taxes on gasoline and motor fuels - excise taxes on tobacco and alcoholic beverages - excise taxes funding the Airport and Airway trust fund taxes; and - excise taxes on telephone services.

Common Cause spent $2.56 million last year, just ahead of the $2.55 million reported by Philip Morris U.S.A., a subsidiary of Philip Morris Companies Inc., which used direct-mail campaigns to oppose any increase in Federal excise taxes on tobacco products.

The task could be all the more daunting in a swirling atmosphere of anti-tobacco initiatives, including proposed Federal legislation to restrict advertising, the possibility of new excise taxes on tobacco products and a recent circuit court decision that - for the first time - identified tobacco as a product that threatens health.

Also, like other tobacco companies whose domestic sales are falling, RJR faces an uncertain future with consumers buying more discounted brands and the Clinton Administration pushing for a higher excise tax on tobacco products - by as much as $2 on each pack of cigarettes - to help pay for a national health program.