Aside from a few zealots who think smoking is a " sin, " most defenders of higher cigaret taxes say they are justified because smokers burden society with higher medical costs.
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With Illinois charging 44 cents a pack and Kentucky charging only 3 cents, it's no surprise that a lot of people, including bootleggers, cross state lines in search of cheap cigarets.
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These steep taxes are all the more problematic since authorities agree they fall most heavily on the poor, who smoke more and spend a higher fraction of their limited budget on cigarets than do more affluent Americans.
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Last April, the State Board of Equalization reported that California was losing up to $ 68 million a year in tobacco tax revenue because of increased smuggling from Mexico and from military bases, where cigarets are sold without tax.
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:: For a while in the'80s the Globe and Mail ( Toronto-published, nationally distributed ) was on a ideosyncratic reformed-spelling kick, using-or and-er and even " cigaret ".
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"Proposed increases in the ( federal ) excise tax may well operate, as hoped, to raise federal tax revenues and lower the level of cigaret smoking, but it will also serve to increase the proportion of smuggled cigarets and thereby reduce state revenues, " they warn.
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"Proposed increases in the ( federal ) excise tax may well operate, as hoped, to raise federal tax revenues and lower the level of cigaret smoking, but it will also serve to increase the proportion of smuggled cigarets and thereby reduce state revenues, " they warn.
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TV ads show fat-cat cigaret executives as killers, the Food and Drug Administration threatens to regulate it, local governments are banning smoking in many private buildings and, last but not least, Congress now threatens a steep boost in the federal cigaret tax to help pay for health care reform.
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TV ads show fat-cat cigaret executives as killers, the Food and Drug Administration threatens to regulate it, local governments are banning smoking in many private buildings and, last but not least, Congress now threatens a steep boost in the federal cigaret tax to help pay for health care reform.
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"If there will be a total ban in 2004, there will be problems and an unrealistic goal has been created, " said Nyren, whose organization represents more than 4, 000 hotels and restaurants " Some guests want to smoke a cigar or cigaret after the meal ."
