SACRAMENTO, Calif. – It’s been more than three years since California voters dismissed a dollar-per-pack increase in the state’s cigarette tax, but it appears that voters will have another chance to decide the issue, the San Jose Mercury News reports. On the 2016 ballot will probably be a proposed $2-per-pack tax increase, which will include electronic cigarettes for the first time. Earlier this year, the same proposal lost traction in the Legislature.

What’s changed is that a new poll has public support for the tax hike at more than 2 to 1. Since 2016 is a presidential election year, voter turnout should be higher as well. “We are reviewing the ballot initiative and considering our options,” said David Sutton, a spokesman for Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris. “We are opposed to large, excessive cigarette tax increases like this one proposed in California.”

If approved, California’s cigarette tax would go from 87 cents per pack to $2.87 per pack, pushing the state into the top 10 for having the highest tobacco taxes in the country.

Across the state, more than 60 Massachusetts senators and representatives are backing a bill that would raise the tobacco buying age from 18 to 21, the Associated Press reports. Currently, several dozen Massachusetts municipalities have enacted ordinances making the legal tobacco purchase age 21.

In July, the Legislature’s Public Health Committee discussed the proposal, and a decision on the bill’s advancement will likely come in early 2016. Meanwhile, Boston’s Board of Health has been contemplating raising the city’s legal tobacco buying age to 21 for all nicotine products, including e-cigarettes. The Boston vote could take place as early as December 17; if passed the new rules could be enacted as early as February.

Boston retailers, including convenience stores, said that the city’s proposed ordinance was “unjustified and misguided,” because it didn’t tackle the minor smoking problem. “Ideally we would want it to stay at 18. There are other ways to get at youth smoking,” said Ryan Kearney, general counsel for the Retailers Association of Massachusetts.