Californians consider taxing e-cigarettes

SAN DIEGO (AP) - After 10 years of unsuccessful efforts to raise cigarette taxes, anti-smoking activists are trying a new approach - a ballot initiative that would not only steeply increase taxes on tobacco products but also add them to previously untaxed electronic cigarettes.

If voters pass Proposition 56 in November, California would become only the fifth state to tax e-cigarettes, following Kansas, Louisiana, Minnesota and North Carolina.

Californians consider taxing e-cigarettes