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
- 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
