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"People go to illicit retailers or native American reservations." Regarding the one dollar increase in the state cigarette tax, to $5.35 a pack, which would propel New York State to have the highest cigarette tax in the nation, Sopris does not expect it will have any real impact on smoking rates
Moreover, evidence shows that wide differentials in cigarette taxes across states have opened up a black market for smuggling, with criminals obtaining cigarettes in low-tax states and selling them in high-tax states

The report found, Cigarette smokers have substantially higher rates of death and disability than their nonsmoking counterparts in the population, and said, Cigarette smokers tend to die at earlier ages and experience more days of disability than comparable nonsmokers. It noted, further, that a substantial portion of these early deaths and disabilities would not have occurred if those affected had not smoked, and that if it were not for cigarette smoking, practically none of the earlier deaths from lung cancer would have occurred. The response of the cigarette industry to these findings was to put into that years cigarette commercials and sponsored programs on television about two hundred and seventeen million dollars, or approximately twenty-three million dollars more than it had put into them the previous year
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