It may make sense to tax tobacco more heavily, or to restrict its marketing and distribution more strictly.
Tanzania and Uganda have banned smoking in public places and countries like Ghana, Kenya and Mauritius have ratified the WHO tobacco control treaty, which promises to increase tax on tobacco sales, introduce smoking bans and reduce tobacco production.
Legislators also tripled the tax on tobacco--this in one of the three top tobacco-producing states in the nation.
Reynolds has since lobbied for tobacco tax increases and FDA regulation of tobacco.
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The measure, which landed on ballots this month, would have increased the state tax on tobacco in the Golden State by about a buck a pack.
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Opponents will no doubt bring up his work on behalf of tobacco companies and ask, as others have, whether it impelled him to kill a statewide anti-smoking programme in 2006 and to twice veto a bill that would have replaced the state's grocery tax with a higher tax on tobacco.
That designation is issued by the Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
According to data from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, cigarette shipments declined 4.5% in 2010.
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Alcohol duties and air duty will be frozen - but tobacco tax will go up by two percentage points above inflation.
Clinton will talk about his proposed 55-cent increase in the tobacco tax.
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McCurry said Clinton would push the tobacco tax increase during an afternoon event designed to highlight progress in improving child immunization rates.
President Obama, however, wasted no time in signing the tobacco tax bill.
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Is a tobacco tax increase coming next to a state near you?
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Recent studies would place the blame squarely on the federal tobacco tax.
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Dave Bowersox, who bought a box of Prime Time Little Cigars at the Denver store Tuesday, said he's fine with the tobacco tax increases.
His proposed increase in the tobacco tax would disproportionately affect low- and moderate-income taxpayers, who spend a bigger share of their income on cigarettes than the wealthy.
The tax-evading tobacco addicts are still smokers, but now they are criminals, too, as the state rakes in extra revenue, but citizen smokers realize no health benefits.
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The tobacco tax hikes, which President Obama signed into law in February, will be used to finance an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.
The tobacco tax, in particular, was a struggle.
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Even accounting for the cost of setting up a regulator and a fall in corporation tax paid by the tobacco companies, the researchers estimated there was a large amount of extra tax to be made.
Nick Hamad, a tobacco store owner in Seattle, Washington, said he thinks the tax will ruin the American tobacco industry.
Ray Story, chief executive of the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, warned that tax rises on e-cigarettes would only benefit tobacco companies, to the detriment of public health.
The decision is a temporary, first step while the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade and Tax Bureau, or TTB, continues to consider final rules on alcohol labels.
Finally, being a "smoking pariah" now, with never a day in hospital in my life, I feel that any treatment I may need in the future has long been covered by my income tax and duty paid on tobacco, so now I'm only smoking (legally obtained) duty free tobacco.
That tobacco settlement smacks of tax farming: Companies collect the money and remit it to the states.
The settlement actually runs in perpetuity, turning the tobacco firms into permanent tax-collection agencies for the states.
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But Congress can go right ahead and tax cigarettes to raise the revenues tobacco would otherwise pay through the settlement.
Mr. MIKE HUCKABEE (Former Republican Governor, Arkansas): There's a lot of support for a tax at the wholesale level for tobacco, and that's fine with me.
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