Fact Sheets: Lottery, Gaming and Tobacco

Oklahoma Policy Institute // October 13, 2011 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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In 2004, Oklahoma voters approved a series of measures that created the Oklahoma Education Lottery (SQ 705 & SQ 706), authorized and regulated tribal and racetrack gaming (SQ 712) and increased tobacco taxes (SQ 713) to generate new revenues to help fund education and health care. In these revised and updated 1-page fact sheets, we look at how these revenue sources operate, the amount of annual revenue collections from each source and where the revenues have been allocated.

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