Tobacco road. (higher cigarette tax rates can encourage smuggling)

From: Reason | Date: March 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

Cigarette smuggling may escalate into a major problem in the US if lawmakers follow the trend towards higher cigarettes taxes. If unchecked, the US may go the way of Canada, whose prohibitive taxes incited smokers to smoke and store owners to sell contraband cigarettes.

Cigarette smuggling threatens to become a major problem.

There's a giant sucking sound in the United States - and you don't need to be Ross Perot to hear it. It's the sound of hundreds of thousands of Americans smoking cigarettes smuggled from Mexico and other points of entry. And it's growing louder every day.

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