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Arts Groups Promoting Issue 18

Local orchestras, art museums and theater troupes are gearing up to promote a new tax on cigarettes. The groups are suddenly interested in tobacco because a proposed piggyback tax of thirty cents per pack will mean millions of dollars for them. It's called Issue 18 and voters in Cuyahoga County will decide it seven weeks from today. ideastream's Mark Urycki filed this report.