Tobacco firms said they would boost black market trade, leading to cheaper, more accessible cigarettes
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Among people exposed on a daily basis, around two thirds were exposed to smoke for one or more hours daily
The Virginia Crime Commission found that a well-organized cross-state smuggling operation could bring in $4 million with one shipment.[1] Each year, scholars at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a Michigan think tank, use a statistical analysis of available data to estimate smuggling rates for each state.[2] Their most recent report uses 2012 data and finds that smuggling rates generally rise in states after they adopt large cigarette tax increases
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