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Letters to the editor
Cigarette taxes
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Editor,—It is estimated that provisions of the proposed settlement of the United States attornies general with American tobacco companies would add about US$0.52 to the cost of a packet of cigarettes.1
Although cigarettes in the highest taxing American states—Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and California—are among the most expensive in the developed world, cigarettes in low-taxing states are among the least expensive. Even with the …