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| Cigarette Vending Machine Age-verification system | | 2008-07-15 19:04:21 | | From July 2008, Japanese smokers need to have “Taspo” card to buy cigarettes from vending machines to prevent underage smoking. Taspo, or tobacco passport, is a smart card system that is able to store value, giving purchasers the option to pay by card or by cash. Card issuance is restricted so that only adults aged [...] | | By: Imprint TALK: Asian Pop Culture Blog | | |
| | | Massachusetts Raises Cigarette Tax $1.00 a Pack | | 2008-07-02 18:50:41 | | As you can read here Massachusetts’ Governor Deval Patrick has signed a bill that will increase the tax on cigarettes by $1.00 a pack to a total of $2.51 a pack. Once again a tax is being imposed on a group of politically incorrect people to help to pay for the government’s penchant for overspending.
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| Cigarette | | 2008-06-28 00:00:00 | | The cigarette burns like the life, and the death;
Lung of soot from vesuvian ash, and the hollow corpses of memory never rest in the blood.
And all the burning souls in the wind of life infect,
but break down in the pink, for now.
Rasping regret in the twenty score,
a gaping hole in the neck of remorse.
Say hello when you see me, in a cloud outside the hospital door;
Like vesuvian corpse. | | By: GotPoetry - News for Poets. Place to Write. | | |
| | Cigarette sales get puffed down in Britain | | 2008-06-23 01:45:00 | | Smoking kills – that we all know. Now cigarette sales are getting killed in Britain, after a total ban on smoking was introduced in England (virtually every enclosed public place and workplace) from 1 July this year. Cigarette sales figures are out – and they say that in the one month after the ban, sales have dropped by 6.9%. This was reported in the British newspaper The Guardian’s website that quoted a London Times story, which, in turn, cited the figures from consumer research group AC Nielsen. “Sales had already been falling by about 2% annually,” The Guardian also noted. It does help, of course, that prior to England, smoking had been banned in Scotland, Ireland and Wales earlier. “The fall in July mirrors similar declines in cigarette consumption after smoking was banned in Ireland in 2004 and in Scotland last spring. In addition, the wet weather in July may have deterred smokers from using the outdoor smoking facilities,” the report added, while talking about how | | By: IIPM-World | | |
| | South Carolina Governor Vetoes Cigarette Tax Increase | | 2008-06-02 23:00:00 | | South Carolina will continue to have the lowest state cigarette tax in the U.S. (7 cents per pack) following Governor Mark Sanford's veto of a bill (H. 3567) that would raise it by 50 cents per pack. The House sustained the veto on May 27. The tax increase would have made South Carolina's cigarette tax higher than neighbors Georgia and North Carolina. We've written extensively on how the wide variety of state cigarette excise taxes provides opportunities for consumers to shop for bargains across borders—and for smugglers to make substantial profits.Sanford had been willing to sign a cigarette tax increase, but only as part of a fundamental tax reform that would create an optional flat income tax of 3.4 percent with no deductions, along with the existing 7 percent rate with deductions (one of the highest in the region). Because the legislature did not include the reform with the cigarette tax increase, Sanford refused to support it.The tax increase had been expected to cost taxpay | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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| ... une bonne petite cigarette ... | | 2008-05-22 17:20:33 | | .d'une île à l'autre - Golfe Saronique, Grèce le tabac nuit gravement à la santé .a good cigarette. From island to island, Saronic Gulf - Greece Smoking kills .... Melina Mercouri - Ta Pedia Tou Pirea ... | | By: Clik & Clak | | |
| | Japanese cigarette vending machines to card kids | | 2008-05-13 10:53:00 | | Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow's feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country's 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare for a July regulation requiring them to ensure buyers are not underage, a company has developed a system to identify age by studying facial features.
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| | How to Increase Teacher Pay - Raise Cigarette Taxes Of Course | | 2008-05-12 23:00:00 | | North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley wants to raise the pay of teachers in North Carolina and improve government-provided mental health programs in the state. So who should pay for that? The general public who would theoretically benefit from the higher quality teachers that higher salaries would bring into the state and would also benefit from the greater spending on mental health care?Not a chance. Easley doesn't have the guts to do that. So he acts like a coward and decides that he will go after only a select few products and tax them. Is this in line with sound tax policy? No. Is it even consistent with a free society? No.If the taxes on these products are too low based upon their external costs imposed on society, then that is a justification. But merely raising the taxes on hand-picked products to increase teacher pay with no concern for those external costs is pathetic.And listen to this quote from one nanny who says the proposed increase isn't enough:Cigarette taxes h | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Massachusetts One Ups New Hampshire With Cigarette Tax Hike | | 2008-05-10 13:27:39 | | This has just been kind of interesting to watch. Massachusetts has approved another $1.00 a pack tax on cigarettes, a tax burden that unfairly affects the poor and disadvantaged at a disproportionate level by the way. A tax that preys on a person’s weakness seems like an extremely vile tax to me in the first place.
Anyway, [...] | | By: Wake Up America | | |
| | Tax Foundation Cigarette Tax Op-Ed in Wall Street Journal | | 2008-05-06 23:00:00 | | An op-ed by Tax Foundation chief economist Patrick Fleenor appeared in the Wall Street Journal today. The op-ed, "Cigarette Taxes Are Fueling Organized Crime," discusses the damage inflicted on society by high cigarette taxes, which often cause consumers to turn to the black market. The amount of criminal activity related to cigarette taxes is staggering, as Fleenor explains:While the problem first surfaced during the Great Depression, tax hikes in the early 1960s created a major profit opportunity for smugglers and kicked the epidemic into high gear. By 1967, a quarter of the cigarettes consumed in the Empire State were bootlegged. New York City's finance administrator labeled cigarette smuggling the "principal stoking facility of the engine of organized crime."Crime rapidly spread beyond New York's borders, as trucks carrying cigarettes across the country were hijacked and businesses selling them robbed to supply New York's black market. In 1972, the cha | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | SDHCC Hidden Camera: Cigarette | | 2008-05-05 21:05:48 | | Ever wonder how your babysitter treats your children when you are not there or what your employees do when you are not at your business? Now you can watch them with a camera hidden inside a pack of cigarettes. No one will know that this cigarette pack contains a miniature high-tech spy camera. Although we hide the cameras inside various brands of cigarettes you can easily transfer the camera into | | By: Really Cool Gadgets, New Gadget Review, Gadget New | | |
| | Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling in Massachusetts | | 2008-04-27 23:00:00 | | Tax Foundation Chief Economist Patrick Fleenor has written an op-ed in the Boston Globe on cigarette taxes and smuggling:Massachusetts is awash in bootleg cigarettes.High state cigarette taxes have turned packs of cigarettes into pots of gold for criminals, spawning a massive black market supplied by both smugglers and thieves who can quickly unload stolen cigarettes for cash.[...]Backers of the current hike argue that it will raise needed revenue while discouraging smoking. The first claim is myopic, since the tax imposes costs on society in terms of lawlessness. The widespread availability of cheap cigarettes via the black market also undermines the second.Read the entire op-ed here. Read more about cigarette taxes here and here. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Cigarette Girl | | 2008-04-25 03:03:00 | | I recently came across this personal blog site where I found that there was something unusual as well as crazy about this blog that attracted me to it. I whenever come across some unknown blog i usually find post topics about different things that interest me, so i keep reading them.
So i came across a blog by a female blogger who calls herself cigarette-girl. Its completely about whats going | | By: ALL ADVANTAGE | | |
| | The Marlboro Cigarette Mobile Phone | | 2008-04-15 01:54:00 | | Well not exactly Marlboro it's Marlbara but close enough. By using this Chinese-made device you can fool people into thinking you’ve totally gone bananas and started talking on your cigarette pack. Although I’m sure it doesn’t have all the features of the latest mobile phones, but I know I’d love to have one,especially because it comes in a luxurious box, with a gold lighter and complementary cigarettes.Here are Marlbara’s specs:- 900/1800 GSM/GPRS- 1.5 inch 260k color 178×220 display- 1.3 mega pixel camera- microSD support- stereo speakers- measures 92×50.5×13 mm- weighs 98 grams | | By: What's Up | | |
| | New York's Gutless Politicians: Let's Raise Cigarette Tax Just to Raise Revenue | | 2008-03-30 23:00:00 | | Politicians in an election year will do anything to not raise taxes in a form that they should be raised (i.e. raising a broad-based tax). That's why they frequently do what is happening in Albany: raise taxes on an arbitrary product consumed by a minority of citizens (i.e. cigarettes).Cigarette taxes should not be set at a given level for the sole purpose of raising revenue. If the elected officials want to justify a cigarette tax on the grounds that they impose negative costs on society, then so be it. Determine that level and tax it appropriately. But don't just raise the tax on an arbitrarily selected product consumed by some minority of people because you need to raise revenue in an election year. Our Founding Fathers had a word for those types of policies: tyranny. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Cigarette Lighter Flashlight | | 2008-03-21 22:00:00 | | I was thinking for a while to buy a flashlight for my dad as a gift as his birthday is coming and today I was just doing shopping a flashlight which is rechargeable as I am thinking it is a hassle to buy batteries and waste of money too. I found this LighterLight.Com website, which they sell sleek, stylish, durable, trendy rechargeable LED flashlights which can fit in your car or truck’s cigarette lighter adapter and they have variety of colors which you can choose and their product is the one that I am looking for and it impressed me, because it is just a lightweight as it just measure two inches long. I always wanted a small, rechargeable flashlight for myself too. Having a good flashlight is very helpful especially when you need extra light when you are walking alone; changing tires night time or looking something. If you are looking a durable, lightweight, affordable, and rechargeable flashlight this LighterLight.Com is the right choice, check it and order now! | | By: My Trails In Life | | |
| | Addicted to Cigarette Taxes | | 2008-03-06 00:00:00 | | Congress is currently considering bills (H.R. 1108 and S. 625) authorizing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate the tobacco industry. Largely unnoticed is the fact that this legislation would perpetuate injustice in the tax system.Benefit PrincipleGovernments produce two types of services. The first type has broad benefits which aid all in society. National defense and police protection are obvious examples, and there is a general consensus that everyone should pitch in to help shoulder the cost of such programs. As a result, weapons systems and soldiers' salaries are paid for with broad-based taxes on the income earned by most Americans.The other type of government benefit goes to few people. When governments build swimming pools and other recreational facilities, for example, there is often an effort to charge user fees commensurate with the costs of operating such facilities. The logic here is straightforward: since so few people use those facilities, it's unjust to make eve | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Researchers discover how cigarette smoke causes cancer | | 2008-02-28 13:14:46 | | Everyone has known for decades that that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. In a new research report published in the March 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal, researchers from the University of California, Davis, show that hydrogen peroxide (or similar oxidants) in cigarette smoke is the culprit. This finding may help the tobacco industry develop “safer” cigarettes by eliminating such substances in the smoke, while giving medical researchers a new avenue to developing lung cancer treatments.
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| | Cigarette King 3838 – mobile with cigarettes pack form | | 2008-02-09 04:58:40 | |
Genial Chinese offer the world the next unique invention.
Mobile with an original form it was created especially for smokers. In package with model there is a free lighter and a pack of real cigarettes. Mobile “Cigarette pack” can be opened as a usual mobile.
Rear of body permits to hold 7 cigarettes in [...] | | By: cigarettes and gadget | | |
| | | | Quit smoking together with E-cigarette | | 2008-01-25 07:55:31 | |
Diverse nicotine chewing gums and patches help people to quit smoking, but what we can do with habits that include taking out a cigarette form cigarettes pack and for example smoking it when you meet with your friends in the club or in hard moments of life.
In cases like that, electronic cigarettes e-cigarettes will help [...] | | By: cigarettes and gadget | | |
| | Ashtrays and cigarette lighters going up in smoke | | 2008-01-25 05:01:41 | | Filed under: Trends, Etc., Lifestyle
As one smoker said at the Detroit Auto Show, “Do you know what smokers have to go through today just to smoke? It’s like they’re trying to erase us from history.” More and more carmakers are making it harder to smoke in one’s own vehicle by replacing lighters and ashtrays with [...] | | By: Car O Focus | | |
| | | Cigarette Machine to Teens: “Get Outta Here Ya Damn Kids!” | | 2007-12-27 02:12:47 | |
Listen up, Japanese teens: vending machine maker Fujitaka Co. is on to your sneaky cigarette-buying ways, and has created a machine that uses a camera and face recognition software to try and stop you.
The machine takes your picture when you press the "Adult Recognition" button, and analyzes your face for wrinkles and sagging. If [...] | | By: cigarettes and gadget | | |
| | | South Carolina Governor Proposes Optional Flat Tax, Cigarette Tax Hike | | 2007-12-21 00:00:00 | | Since taking office, Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina has sought to cut his state's income tax, which tops out at a 7 percent rate. Yesterday, he unveiled a proposal to offer residents the option of sticking with the current code, or paying a 3.4 percent flat tax, with no exemptions or deductions.He estimates the revenue loss would be $107 million, which he proposes to make up by increasing the state tax on cigarettes from 7 cents to 37 cents. According to the Governor, it's a step to increase South Carolina's competitiveness and bring about sound tax policy: This is about beginning a long-overdue conversation in South Carolina about the way we tax and about the need to simplify our tax structure. To that end, we're making this proposal as a way of starting that conversation and as a way to take a meaningful step in that direction. Sanford has tried reforming the state income tax several times since taking office:In 2003 Sanford supported raising the | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Raising Cigarette Taxes Just to Raise Revenue | | 2007-12-20 00:00:00 | | It has been a common theme recently for elected officials to go after cigarettes for a tax hike to pay for some spending program that is supposed to provide general public benefits. What is the justification of this type of policy from the perspective of sound public finance? Unless one wants to argue for an across-the-board switch to Ramsey Rule taxation, there is none. It's pure democratic politics: use the coercive power of the state to take from an unpopular minority to finance a majority's wishes.The latest two examples come from California and South Carolina. Gov. Schwarzenegger (yes, the same man who used to loathe socialist policies in Free to Choose videos) wants to use the revenue to pay for universal healthcare in California. Gov. Sanford wants to raise the South Carolina cigarette tax to pay for a flat tax in his state.Neither has justified higher cigarette taxes on the grounds of empirical evidence on their negative externalit | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | HOWTO hit a golf ball with a cigarette in your mouth! | | 2007-12-16 22:04:38 | | Download latest version of Flash to view video! title="Download Flash">. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode
Here’s a simple howto for hitting the golf ball with a cigarette in your mouth.
What does this do for your swing?
Basically, it allows you to balance your swing. If you are not in balance, you will [...] | | By: ProGolferDigest | | |
| | What is a Cigarette? (Or, Why Is The Tax Code So Complex?) | | 2007-12-07 00:00:00 | | Our tax code is enormously complex. The federal code and regulations alone are over 9 million words; War and Peace, by contrast, is a mere 560,000. Add on state and local codes and regulations, and it's a lot of pages. One example of the verbosity required by our complex tax system is New Mexico's recent re-definition of "cigarette." Cigarettes are taxed in New Mexico, as everywhere else, and at a pretty hefty rate. As the tax goes higher and higher, there's more of an incentive to get out of it, and one way is to alter cigarettes so they no longer fall under the state's tax code definition. When the state catches on, it adds more to the definition to encompass the new products, and the cycle then repeats itself. And the tax code gets bigger and bigger. So now, New Mexico's definition of cigarette is either a roll of tobacco wrapped in paper, or a roll of tobacco wrapped in a substance containing tobacco, weighing no more than 3 pounds per 1,000 stocks, and | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Cigarette and Alcohol Damage Hearts | | 2007-11-21 23:16:07 | | Tobacco smoke-filled air is bad for cardiovascular health, and drinking alcohol at the same time only makes it worse.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham team study the effects of smoking and breathing second-hand smoke along with drinking, and test the theory that moderate alcohol consumption provides some heart-protection benefits.
The conclusion was that mice exposed to [...] | | By: Health blog | | |
| | | California May Hike Cigarette Tax by $2 to Increase Healthcare Spending | | 2007-11-06 00:00:00 | | California wants to expand government-provided healthcare. So how do you raise the revenue? Of course, you do what is politically expedient and raise taxes on a politicial minority, that being smokers. From the San Jose Mercury News:Democratic leaders on Monday agreed to key elements of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's health care reform plan, including mandatory insurance, according to a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez. They embraced the idea while demanding some exemptions for people who are in financial trouble. Public programs also would expand to cover families earning up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level-about $62,000 a year for a family of four. Democrats also lowered the minimum amount employers must spend from their previous health care bill, which Schwarzenegger vetoed. The new plan has a sliding scale for employers, with a maximum contribution of 6.5 percent of payroll. Steve Maviglio, a spokesman for Nunez, D-Los Angeles, said the Democratic plan also rai | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | How to Hide Cigarette Odors | | 2007-10-19 08:38:17 | | Cigarette odors can be be difficult or hide or remove, but there are several things that can help. The best part? Most are natural or inexpensive.Things You'll Needwhite vinegarbaking sodaFebrezevacuumlemon, lime, or orangeStep OneTo hide odor in homes/vehicles:Place a bowl of vinegar in room or car to remove cigarette odor from the air. Vinegar can also be used to wipe down walls and dashboards which can absorb odors. A bowl of baking soda will also remove odors from air.Step TwoChew fresh parsley or fresh mint to freshen breath. Breath mints and mouth wash can also help to mask cigarette odor.Step ThreeSpray clothing with Febreze to remove odor. Febreze will freshen all types of fabric. Use on curtains, couches, rugs, and mattresses.Step FourTo remove odor from hands:Rub hands with a piece of lemon, lime, or orange to nutrilize odors.Wash hands with soap and water, then rinse hands with white vinegarBut best of all quit smoking!Article copyright BookOfTips.Blogspot.Com - Find helpfu | | By: Book of Tips - Find helpful tips that can help you | | |
| | CBPP Puts Out Misleading Information on Poor and Cigarette Taxes | | 2007-10-18 07:00:00 | | President Bush's decision to veto the smoker-funded SCHIP expansion has elicited some silly new counter-arguments from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), specifically over who's going to pay for it: smokers who are disproportionately poor.In the past, the tax-raisers at CBPP ("the Center") have balked somewhat at tobacco taxes, knowing they hit the poor hardest.But in the current, feverish campaign, that sympathy for the poor has been twisted. CBPP has instead partnered with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids to publish a report saying that higher cigarette taxes are actually good for the poor.It's a typical nanny-like lecture telling poor people that because they're not smart enough or strong enough to quit smoking, the government will do them a favor by making them pay higher taxes, encouraging them to quit, as the Center puts it "freeing up funds for family needs." But are low-income people as a group going to be better off even if people "should quit smoking because it's good for them?" The Center tries to spin the numbers in a way that makes it sound like this is great for the poor by saying this: "...more than three-quarters of the smokers who would be expected to quit in response to the 61 cents per pack cigarette tax increase in the bipartisan legislation have incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line." That three-quarters fact is essentially meaningless and highly misleading. There are 45 million smokers (according to CDC), of which 40 percent are poor (according to the Center), and 1.4 million are predicted to quit from this tax increase (Source: American Cancer Society). So if 75 percent of those who quit are poor, that means 1.05 million poor smokers will quit. But that's out of 18 million poor smokers, meaning the percentage that quit is actually 5.83 percent. In other words, about 94 percent of the poor smokers would continue smoking and pay higher taxes in the process.Therefore, assuming the price of a pack of cigarettes is currently $5 per pack including tax, then this tax increase would actually INCREASE the amount that low-income households spend on cigarettes by a 2 to 1 ratio, and that even assumes they are currently not going to the black market due to high state-local taxes. In other words, as a result of the proposed tax hike, for every $1 that would have "freed up funds for family needs" by reducing tobacco spending for low-income households, $2 would be spent "tying up funds for family needs" by increasing tobacco spending on low-income households.Because these smokers won't quit, they'll be paying $1 a day to Uncle Sam (following the proposed 61 cent hike to pay for SCHIP) on top of the $1 a day that is typical for a state-level tax. That's over $700 a year, serious money for a poor person. And the tax bill would be over a $1,000 in tax for a pack-a-day smoker in nine states with even higher taxes (Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, as well as NYC.)But even if high taxes are good for poor smokers as the paternalists claim, why stop at a $1 or $3 or $5 per pack? States are selling $50 lottery tickets now, most of which is a tax on low-income people. Why not a $50-per-pack tax on cigarettes if you truly wanted to get people to quit (or go black market for cheaper cigarettes) to "free up funds for family needs." According to the CBPP logic, the poor would be much better off with any cigarette tax hike, regardless of what program the revenue funds like SCHIP. Actually, even if the government raised the cigarette tax and used the money to give tax cuts to people making over $10 million or, say, fully repeal the estate tax, according to the Center's argument, poor people would be better off. (However, the Center would likely still cite CBO distributional tables showing that the federal tax system had gotten less progressive as a result of such a tax change because the CBO numbers would show the excise tax hitting the poor.) This paternalistic attitude that high taxes are good for poor smokers might logically lead to another Prohibition like the one on liquor in the 1920s. But that's unlikely because it wouldn't raise money for government programs, which is really the only reason that the CBPP has gone all-out for raising the cigarette tax. If the paternalists at CBPP were truly concerned about the poor's tobacco use, they would have been advocating a cigarette tax hike a year ago when SCHIP wasn't even on the table, and would actually be favoring a much higher tax than $1 per pack. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | El E-Cigarette, un cigarrillo electrónico para dejar de fumar | | 2007-10-16 08:00:21 | | Fumar es nocivo para la salud, eso lo sabemos todos, sin embargo a los fumadores en muchos casos se nos hace literalmente imposible dejar el vicio gracias a la adicción a la nicotina.
Existen diversos productos, sprays, gomas de mascar, parches, etc. en el mercado para suplir las dosis de nicotina de manera tal que el [...] | | By: Punto fape | | |
| | Lucky Strike Cigarette pack made of diamond, gold and ruby | | 2007-10-10 21:54:44 | | If you are a smoker, would you like to buy a luxurious cigarette pack that are made of gold, ruby, diamonds and its so expensive. Now would you believe that Lucky Strike produced a cigarette pack in 2006, this single packet comes packed with 18 gold carat with a distinct diamond and a ruby inside it.Lucky Strike has been a popular cigarette brand since 1871 and to boost the popularity of the brand. BAT International has launched an advertising tour campaign around $100,000 pack of cigarettes that will be displayed at major international airports . The rest of the package has included a health warning. The cigarette pack can be seen in Frankfurt in September, in Düsseldorf in November and Munich in December.The pack has earned enough publicity and invited eyeballs on its tour to various countries. At the European airports, there was an issue and have the visibility with a replica or "look-a-like" pack being offered to public.Via elitechoice | luxist | | By: Diamond IceForever Jewelry | | |
| | How Much Revenue Would Maryland Cigarette Tax Really Raise? | | 2007-09-20 07:00:00 | | Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley's tax hike plan unveiled on Monday included a $1 increase in the state's cigarette tax, which would make the tax $2.00 per pack. A paternalist may think this is a noble exercise for the government to stop people from smoking. A politician who merely wants more money to spend may like it because it increases the government's coffers while only ticking off a minority of the population. However, neither person's objective may be satisfied in the case of Maryland due to its close proximity to other states. How much revenue can the state really raise when most of the state lives within an hour's driving distance of another state that has a significantly lower tax on cigarettes? For example, Prince George's and Montgomery Counties make up about one-third of Maryland's population, and each of these counties borders Virginia. If O'Malley is successful at increasing Maryland's cigarette tax, it would be $1.70 per pack higher than Virginia. Who is not | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Tax Foundation Economist to Discuss Cigarette Taxes | | 2007-09-11 07:00:00 | | This Thursday, September 13, Tax Foundation Chief Economist Patrick Fleenor will be part of a panel discussing the proposal to raise cigarette taxes as part of the renewal of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The panel, hosted by the Cato Institute, will be in B-339 Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill at noon. For more information and to RSVP, visit Cato's events page.For more on cigarette taxes, including the SCHIP increase proposal, click here. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Cigarette Taxes Approaching Tipping Point | | 2007-09-07 07:00:00 | | Tax Foundation Chief Economist Patrick Fleenor appears in a Wall Street Journal editorial today that analyzes the cigarette smuggling becoming more common with federal and state hikes in cigarette taxes: Something similar is going on all over the U.S., where cigarette taxes have on average tripled in the last decade, but treasuries aren't getting the revenue boost. For consumers, tax-free online cigarettes are only a mouse click away, and these purchases now cost the states more than $1 billion a year in lost tobacco taxes, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. Washington state, which levies a tax of $2.03 a pack, loses an estimated $200 million a year to out-of-state purchases, according to the Seattle Times. Californians smoke 300 million untaxed packs of cigarettes a year thanks to the Internet, smuggling, and out of state sales.In New York City, where the combined city and state tax is $3 a pack, smugglers sell bootlegged cigarettes on street corners much like drug de | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Raising Federal Cigarette Tax Will Cause Decline in State Cigarette Tax Revenue | | 2007-08-08 07:00:00 | | We've posted a new commentary here that gives a brief, quasi-technical look at the issue of double marginalization when it comes to more than one layer of government taxing a single product. We examine this issue in the context of the current debate over whether the federal government should raise the federal excise tax on cigarettes.Should they do so, it would mean lower tax revenue for state and local governments that tax cigarettes. It works the other way too -- should the states choose to increase their tax, federal tax revenue would then fall. In this political climate where smokers are the first choice for politicians to tax, the result could end up being government (as a whole) over-taxing cigarettes relative to the optimal revenue-raising point, even though states and the federal government could be maximizing their own revenue given the actions of others. | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | | SCHIP, Cigarette Taxes, and Crime | | 2007-07-16 07:00:00 | | Here is a question for lawmakers to consider before casting their votes to raise the federal cigarette tax by 61 cents per pack: How can the number of smokers have increased over the last decade while the number of tax-paid cigarettes has fallen sharply?The answer is that Americans are smoking millions of bootlegged cigarettes.Consider the case of Jorge Abraham. He's not exactly the stereotypical border-crossing smuggler: a quadriplegic living with his parents in El Paso. But prosecutors called him "extremely resourceful" when he smuggled millions of packs of cigarettes into the U.S. from China and distributed them nationwide. In 2005 he pled guilty and went to prison.What drove Mr. Abraham, and what encourages others like him, is the simple arithmetic of cigarette tax evasion. Today a pack of brand name cigarettes can be had for as little as $1.25 in low-tax jurisdictions around the world. Due mostly to federal, state and local taxes, the U.S. price for that same pack re | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | | Raising Cigarette Taxes to Fund Veterans' Benefits | | 2007-06-07 07:00:00 | | Tennessee is the latest state to raise the cigarette tax as a general revenue source, largely because it is easy politically to pass tax hikes on a political minority. But they don't want to stop at 42 cents. They need another 3 cents out of smokers to give money to veterans. From the Knoxville News Sentinel:House Democrats, in a surprise move, acted Wednesday to give quick, late-session approval to another 3-cents-per-pack tax increase on cigarettes, with the revenue earmarked to benefit veterans. The bill is sponsored by Rep. David Shepard, D-Dickson. It was brought to life by a Wednesday afternoon amendment in a House committee, then zipped through three committees without debate or opposition. It could face a House floor vote today - just three days after approval of a 42-cents-per-pack cigarette-tax increase. That bill awaits the signature of Gov. Phil Bredesen, who pushed for passage. About $21 million of the money raised from the 42-cent increase will go | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | A County-Level Cigarette Tax in Nassau County? | | 2007-05-08 07:00:00 | | One county offiicial in Nassau County, NY (Long Island) is proposing a county-level cigarette tax to help fill the county government's coffers. From Newsday:Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi is headed to Albany Tuesday to lobby state legislators for his proposals to enact a county cigarette tax and install red-light cameras, even though some lawmakers have expressed mixed reactions."I think this is a normal process you've got to go through," Suozzi said. "State legislators want to hear what our concerns are, and we want to hear what their concerns are. It's part of the process."Suozzi made splashes last month with his proposals for a $2-per-pack county cigarette tax and the red-light camera program. But both ideas require the approval of the state Assembly and Senate.It is often very difficult to raise substantial amounts of revenue with such local taxes on products given the ease with which consumers can cross the border to shop in lower-tax jurisdi | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
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