KLUB 106.9 The Rock » cigarette taxes http://1069therock.com The Best Classic Rock & The Best New Rock Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:37:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Have Higher Cigarette Taxes Driven People to Smoke Pipes and Cigars? — Dollars and Sense http://1069therock.com/cigarette-taxes-pipes-cigars-dollars-and-sense/ http://1069therock.com/cigarette-taxes-pipes-cigars-dollars-and-sense/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:30:39 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=90729 Three years ago, a federal act meant to help reduce the number of people who smoke greatly increased the tax rates for cigarettes, roll-your-own tobacco, and small cigars, counting on the fact that making smoking more expensive would prompt people to quit.

And while it may have caused some to do so, the move had an unintended effect: sales of pipe tobacco and large cigars, which aren’t taxed quite as harshly, have boomed.

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