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STATE ACTIVITIES POLICY COMMITTEE

STATE ACTIVITIES POLICY COMMITTEE AGENDA Cs I. ISSUE MANAGEMENT I 1. Assessment by Lobbyists (See Tab VII) 2. Summary Report on Political Contributions (win./loss Record) (See Tab VIII) 3. State Government Trends (See-Tab IX) A. Excise Tax Issue 1. -1983 Legislative Outlook (See Tab I) 2. Basic Tax Lobbying Plan (See Tab II) 3. Support Programs a. Communications (See Tab III) b. Research (See Tab IV) B. Self-Extinguishing Cigarette Issue 1. 1983 Legislative Outlook (See Tab I) 2. Report of Three Regional Lobbyists Meetings and Legislative Strategy (See Tab V) 3. Communications Support C. Public Smoking and other Issues 1. 1983 Legislative Outlook (See Tab I) 2. Ballot Measures a. , Kera County (CA) (See- 14b VI), b. Los Alamos (NM) II. 1982 Elections III. TAN in the Southeastern States (See Tab X) IV. Other Business

1983 LEGISLATIVE OUTLOOK Report from State Legislative Counsel November 30, 1982 ~~

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t TAX LOBBYING PLAN • FEDERAL • STATE `

DRAFT DRAFT LOBBYING PLAN: THE FEDERAL CIGARETTE EXCISE TAX I. RATIONALE A. The Necessary Assumption There is not the slightest assurance that the 1982 doubling of the federal excise tax provides any security against additional increases in the immediate future. To the contrary, given the combination of grave federal fiscal problems, public attitude which puts cigarette tax increases high on the list of those which are least objectionable, and realization by the anti-smoking coalition that tax increases are one of their most potent weapons, the only assumption under which the industry should proceed is that there will be another attempt to increase the excise tax in 1983 and assuredly by 1984, in the Congress. B. Elements of Plan This lobbying program is divided into its two logical components:

Page 2 1. Intelligence, and a. Action. II. THE INTELLIGENCE PROGRAM A. Basic Requirements k 1. Commitment to System is required throughout, in the sense that a successful federal lobbying program must be built upon a systematic approach to intel- ligence (and, subsequently, to lobbying) by which continuing intelligence assignments are made, specific individuals are responsible for gathering and contributing intelligence from their assigned sources, and assessments are made regularly by combining all sources, as a means of managing the style and breadth of resulting programs. 2. A commitment to Permanency is required: recognition that the problem is a permanent one into the fore- seeable future, that the system and structure for dealing with it are permanent rather than ad hoc, and that assignments of responsibility and follow- ~