Cigarette Taxes in the News

2012

• January 12, 2012
  MO Secretary of State Approves Cigarette Tax Increase Petition - Ozarks First
  
  
• January 12, 2012
  Ballot Battle Joined Over Tobacco Tax in California - Capitol Weekly
  
  
• January 8, 2012
  OUR VIEW: Raising taxes on cigarettes isn't best way to rescue ailing General Fund, but it's probably the tax increase most likely to pass the Legislature tax - Al.com
  
  
• January 5, 2012
  Alabama Lawmakers Angling for Cigarette Tax Hikes tax - CSPNet.com
  
  

2011

• December 12, 2011
  ID: Rep. Dennis Lake, "Errand Boy" for the Tax Hike Lobby - Americans for Tax Reform
  
  
• August 17, 2011
  Have Cigarette Tax Increases Fallen Out Of Fashion? - Daily Caller
  
  
• July 5, 2011
  July Brings New Tobacco Prices - Convenience Store Decisions
  
  
• June 30, 2011
  Vermont Set to Hike Cigarette Tax as New Hampshire CUTS It - BigGovernment.com
  
  
• May 4, 2011
  Tax hikes on the way for Connecticut residents - CNNMoney.com
  
  
• April 27, 2011
  Will cigarette and gas taxes drive Vt. consumers to N.H.? - WCAX.com
  
  
• March 24, 2011
  Cigarette tax proposals pit anti-smokers against tobacco lobby - The Oregonian
  
  
• March 22, 2011
  Out of Control Policy Blog - States Are Finally Turning Their Backs on Cigarette Taxes - Reason Foundation
  
  
• March 15, 2011
  New York Considers Hiking Cigarette Tax... Again - BigGovernment
  
  
• March 14, 2011
  $1 Cigarette Tax Increase To Be Proposed In NC - MyFox8.com
  
  
• February 22, 2011
  State Reps Propose Lower Cigarette Tax - GoLocalProv News
  
  
• February 8, 2011
  Will New Hampshire finally cut its cigarette tax? - National Taxpayers Union
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Cigarette Tax Advocates Face Uphill Battle - Vermont Public Radio
  
  
• January 14, 2011
  Benefit seen in lower smokeless-products tax - The Winston-Salem Journal
  
  
• January 9, 2011
  Lawmakers to consider boost in Idaho cigarette tax - Bloomberg
  
  
• January 7, 2011
  Illinois Needs to Kick the Cigarette Tax Habit - National Taxpayers Union
  
  

2010

• December 17, 2010
  VIDEO: Where There's Cigarette Taxes, There's Smuggling - The Mackinac Center for Public Policy
  
  
• December 8, 2010
  Research & Commentary: Georgia's Tobacco Tax Advantage - The Heartland Institute
  
  
• December 2, 2010
  Smokers Travel To Illinois For Cheaper Cigarettes - Channel3000.com
  
  
• December 2, 2010
  New York: Raising tax rates means less revenue - Wall Street Journal - Marketwatch
  
  
• November 26, 2010
  Tobacco Gangsterism and Terrorism Link - MichaelBenjamin2012's Blog
  
  
• November 23, 2010
  Taxing smokers isn't the answer to state revenue woes - Missourian
  
  
• November 23, 2010
  Can't keep running to smokers for more money - St. Louis Today
  
  
• November 18, 2010
  Big Business of Cigarette Smuggling - MyFoxDC.com
  
  
• November 13, 2010
  Assembly's cigarette tax punishes use of legal item - Anchorage Daily News
  
  
• October 25, 2010
  Predatory Tobacco Tax - The Salt Lake Tribune
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Cigarette Tax Revenue Lost in Smoke of Smuggling - Washington Policy Center
  
  
• October 20, 2010
  New cigarette tax driving more smokers to black market - King5.com - Seattle, WA
  
  
• October 7, 2010
  Tobacco Smuggling Enforcement Detracts From Law Enforcement Demands, National Troopers Coalition Tells FDA Panel - TheStreet.com
  
  
• September 20, 2010
  Oregon Study Suggests that Tobacco Tax Initiatives and Anti-Smoking Programs May Be Harming, Not Helping Lower-Income Populations - Tobacco Analysis
  
  
• September 19, 2010
  Trade In Black-Market Cigarettes: Hot, Dangerous - National Public Radio
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  Convenience Stores Call for Suspension of 58 Cigarette-Tax-Hike - New York Association of Convenience Stores
  
  
• August 12, 2010
  Cig-taxed NYers run for border - New York Post
  
  
• August 3, 2010
  Opinion: Higher tobacco taxes increase revenue -- for smugglers - San Jose Mercury News
  
  
• 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

• December 19, 2007
  Dems give up SCHIP fight until the 111th - The Hill
  
  
• November 8, 2007
  Schip Wreck - The Wall Street Journal
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  Tennessee Residents Crossing State Line To Buy Cigarettes - WYMT News
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  Bush veto gives victory to tobacco industry - Triange Business Journal
  
  
• September 7, 2007
  Dope Smokers (PDF) - Wall Street Journal
  
  
• September 2007
  Why Families Should Be Concerned about SCHIP - The Heritage Foundation
  
  
• July 24, 2007
  Opinion: A tax cure for healthcare - Wall Street Journal
  
  

2006 and earlier

• June 2,2006
  Opinion: Raising Cigarette Tax, More Harmful Than Helpful (PDF) - Asbury Park Press
  
  
• July 7, 2005
  As Cigarette Taxes Rise, New Study Shows Revenue Estimates Failing as Customers Go Underground - Tax Foundation
  
  
• February 2004
  Illicit Cigarette Trafficking and the Funding of Terrorism - The Police Chief Magazine