Billions of cigarettes are smuggled each year, equal to about one third of the cigarette market. Cigarettes are the World’s most widely smuggled legal consumer product. They are smuggled across almost every national border and along constantly changing routes.
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Posts on ‘March 17th, 2008’
Illegal Cigarettes
Raise New York Tax On Cigarettes
Editorial: Raise New York Tax On Cigarettes
March 17, 2008 - Newsday.com
If a 100 percent increase in one tax can reduce smoking and help cut the state’s budget deficit - and it can - there’s no good reason for state legislators not to pass it.
Right now, the state tax on a pack of cigarettes is $1.50. […]
Anti-Smoking Advocates Say Plan Protects Youths
Anti-Smoking Advocates Say Plan Protects Youths; Pacifica Merchants Balk At Fee
By Alan Fackler, CORRESPONDENT - Article Created: 03/17/2008 02:34:01 AM PDT
PACIFICA — Teenage smoking is a serious problem, and a group of local teens decided to do something about it — much to the consternation of city merchants.
In Pacifica, where retailers in the past were […]
