Cigarette Taxes in the News
2010
- July 12, 2010
Team Paterson Nixes Cig-Tax Evasion Budget - New York Post
- July 6, 2010
Hacker Curve: Quitting Smoking Is Bad for The Children - Reason.com
- July 2, 2010
Lawmakers Turn a Blind Eye to History by Raising Tobacco Taxes - National Taxpayers Union
- June 7, 2010
States Illogically Looking to Cigarette Taxes as Deficit Panacea - Big Government
- June 2, 2010
Pennsylvania Budget Facts 2010: Tobacco Taxes - Commonwealth Foundation
- May 25, 2010
D.C. Snuffs out, Drinks Up - Washington Business Journal
- May 20, 2010
Chicago Cigarette Tax: Study Shows 75% Of Chicagoans Buy Cigarettes Out Of City - Huffington Post
- May 9, 2010
Legislature should snuff out another tobacco tax hike - Nashua Telegraph
- April 21, 2010
Who really benefits from cigarette tax? - Hudson Valley Press
- April 15, 2010
Several States Mulling Higher Taxes on Tax Day - Joshua Culling, Americans for Tax Reform
- April 6, 2010
New York: High cigarette taxes stoke bootlegging, violence - Patrick Fleenor, of the Tax Foundation, in the Buffalo News
- April 1, 2010
Cigarette Tax Increase: Corporate Welfare First, Medicaid Second - South Carolina Policy Council
- March 31, 2010
Digging Deeper Into Rowe’s Cigarette Tax Proposal - Pine Tree Politics
- March 26, 2010
USA Today Wrong on the Cigarette Tax - Americans for Tax Reform
- March 26, 2010
Cigarette taxes are gold rush for states - USA Today
- March 17, 2010
Did cigarette tax increase do more harm than good? - The Baltimore Sun
- March 10, 2010
Georgia Should Refrain from Relying on Smokers to Fill Budget Hole - The Tax Foundation
- March 4, 2010
Utah Doesn't Need Cigarette Tax Hike - Grover Norquist Op-Ed at Deseret News
- Feb. 25, 2010
Real Men of Genius - DC City Council Edition: Cigarette Tax Hike Reduces Revenue
Download as PDF - Americans for Tax Reform
- Feb. 17, 2010
Cigarettes and higher taxes: Two bad habits - The State (South Caorlina)
- Feb. 11, 2010
How to Solve Ohio’s Budget Crisis — Soak the Poor! - Redstate.com
- January 13, 2010
Half of Washington Smokes Expected to Be Illegal With Proposed Tax Hike - Mackinac Center for Public Policy
2009
- November 14, 2009
Cigarette Tax Money Goes Up in Smoke - NBC Chicago
- November 5, 2009
14 charged with illegal buys of 77 million cigs - Boston Herald
- October 21, 2009
US treasury losing billions as smugglers exploit tax differences - Irish Independent
- October 6, 2009
California governor's race travels the information superhighway - The Sacramento Bee
- September 30, 2009
Cigarette tax hike 'kills' business for local store owners - The Valley Breeze
- September 22, 2009
Edward Achorn: Economics 101 and a pack of cigarettes - The Providence Journal
- September 11, 2009
Research & Commentary: Top Ten Reasons Not to Raise Tobacco Taxes - The Heartland Institute
- August 10, 2009
Taxes, Cigarettes And George Lucas - Forbes.com
- August 4, 2009
The New Federal Tobacco Tax: Who Loses? - NCPA
- July 14, 2009
ATF seizes 12 million counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes made in China - The Washington Examiner
- June 29, 2009
OPINION: Higher cigarette taxes: unhealthy and unfair - Los Angeles Times
- June 2, 2009
OPINION: Nanny state runs amok with city’s cigarette tax - San Francisco Examiner
- May 29, 2009
Cigarette tax hike lacks support in House - Pantagraph.com
- May 18, 2009
Cigarette taxes hurt New Jersey - AllBusiness.com
- May 15, 2009
Bill Fleischli: Cigarette tax hike sure to hurt sales - The State Journal-Register
- May 14, 2009
The tyranny of taxing 'sin' - The Christian Science Monitor
- May 6, 2009
Study: Cigarette tax increase could bring in less revenue - Quad-City Times
- May 6, 2009
Nassau County Cigarette Tax Would be Self-Defeating - New York Association of Convenience Stores
- May 1, 2009
OPINION: High cigarette taxes are not worth the consequence - Washington Examiner
- April 27, 2009
Lobbyists blow smoke in face of cigarette tax increase - NJBiz
- April 26, 2009
Report: Smokers dodging tobacco tax - Times Union
- April 24, 2009
Cigarette tax hikes good news for bootleggers (butt-leggers?) - Daily Finance
- April 22, 2009
OPINION: Cigarette tax a ‘gold mine’ for smugglers - The Daily Times
- April 8, 2009
EDITORIAL: Cigarette tax has become crushingly unfair - Waco Tribune-Herald
- April 6, 2009
Study: Federal cigarette tax hike to cut $42 million out of Arizona revenue - The Phoenix Business Journal
- April 1, 2009
PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke - RealClearPolitics.com
- March 27 2009
Tobacco stores and their customers gird for April 1 tax increase - Bay City News
- March 23, 2009
Philip Morris USA Fights Wisconsin Cigarette Tax Hike - Convenience Store News
- March 21, 2009
Tobacco taxes aren't the answer - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- March 17, 2009
Opponents rip plan to raise tax on cigarettes - The State Journal-Register
- March 17, 2009
Higher cigarette tax will benefit other states, industry says - The Register-Mail
- March 10, 2009
Tobacco on Fire Pt. 2
With cigarette and OTP prices about to hit new record highs, the black market may flourish - Convenience Store / Petroleum Magazine
- February 18, 2009
Viewpoint: Congress is treating smokers like second-class citizens - The Herald Bulletin
- February 14, 2009
Bootleggers' Delights - Newsweek
- February 12, 2009
COMMENTARY: States Budget Crises Arrive Like Clockwork - Reason Foundation
- February 11, 2009
Federal tax hike on tobacco is indeed unfair - The Franklin News-Post
- February 1, 2009
The New Poor Tax - The Wall Street Journal
- January 20, 2009
In Our View: Tobacco taxes encourage crime - Daily Herald
- January 15, 2009
Funding S-CHIP with Federal Cigarette Tax Increase is Poor Tax Policy - Tax Foundation
- January 2009
Challenges Ahead For Tobacco - Convenience Store Decisions
- January 9, 2009
Who Are They Screwing First?
The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Assault on Middle America - ATF News Release (PDF)
- January 8, 2009
Congress to Force Obama to Break Word to
Taxpayers Faster than a New Year’s Resolution? - ATF News Release (PDF)
2008
- December 17, 2008
Cigarette tax hike is wrong solution - The Advocate-Messenger News
- December 3, 2008
Dip in smoking might mean a dip in revenue - Rocky Mountain News
- November/December 2008
Cigarette Taxes: No Answer for State Budget Woes; Will Kansas Learn From Maryland? - Inside ALEC
- Nov. 3, 2008
The Reverse Effect - Convenience Store News
- Oct. 30, 2008
Kansas Can’t Afford A Cigarette Tax Hike - Heartland Institute
- Oct. 3, 2008
N.Y. Association: Cigarette Tax Evasion "Flourishes" After Rate Hike - Convenience Store News
- Sep. 17 2008
EDITORIAL: Sebelius’ Cigarette Tax Proposal Ignores Economic Realities - Kansas City Kansan
- Sep. 15 2008
Smoke tax: Saddling smokers with costs of health reform isn't fair - Salt Lake Tribune
- Aug. 21, 2008
State busts of illegal cigarettes jump after tax increase - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Aug. 11, 2008
Cigarette Tax Burnout - The Wall Street Journal
- Jun. 4, 2008
EDITORIAL: Tobacco Tax - Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Jun. 3, 2008
NYACS: Cigarette Tax Will Boost Tax Evasion Epidemic - North Country Gazette
- May 22, 2008
EDITORIAL: Buttlegger's Booty - New York Post
- May 14, 2008
EDITORIAL: Tax increase boosts crime - Charlottesville Daily Progress
- May 14, 2008
Charles M. Arlinghaus: Holding back the governor's tax hikes - Unionleader.com
- May 12, 2008
Tennessee tax collections fall short - Memphis Business Journal
- May 7, 2008
Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Organized Crime - The Wall Street Journal
- April 29, 2008
Cigarette Smugglers Funnel Money to Terror Groups, Report Finds - FOX News
- April 26, 2008
Beacon Hill's gift to the black market - The Boston Globe
- April 2008
R.J. Reynolds Expands Advocacy Web Site - Convenience Store News
- April 23, 2008
Higher tobacco taxes reflect overall tax burden - Times Union
- April 18, 2008
Fighting Tobacco Taxes - CSP Daily News
- April 14, 2008
Smuggling is certain to increase - The Associated Press
- April 13, 2008
State cigarette tax millions short of earlier projections - The Daily Cardinal
2007
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