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THE PROBLEM
THE TOLL OF TOBACCO IN THE UNITED STATES
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THE TOLL OF TOBACCO AROUND THE WORLD
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COVID-19: QUIT SMOKING AND VAPING TO PROTECT YOUR LUNGS
TOBACCO USE AND BLACK AMERICANS
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U.S. INITIATIVES
Campaign for the Culture Initiative: Engaging Targeted Communities
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Ending the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products
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1998 Tobacco Settlement: Broken Promises to Our Children
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Big Tobacco’s Marketing on Social Media
Big Tobacco is Exploiting COVID-19 to Market Its Harmful Products
TakeAPart: The Global Fight to Take Down Tobacco
E-Cigarettes: Flavored Products Fuel a Youth Addiction Crisis
Heated Tobacco Products
Big Tobacco, Tiny Targets: Tobacco Companies are Targeting Kids Near Schools in Countries Around the World
The Philip Morris-Funded Foundation for a Smoke-Free World
The Flavor Trap: E-Cigarettes and Cigars
U.S. Chamber: Blowing Smoke for Big Tobacco
Cigarettes: Designed for Addiction
U.S. Racketeering Verdict
Deadly Alliance: Big Tobacco and Convenience Stores
Not Your Grandfather's Cigar
Global Marlboro Campaign
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U.S. State and Local Tobacco Taxes
Raising Cigarette Taxes Reduces Smoking, Especially Among Kids (and the Cigarette Companies Know It)
Raising Tobacco Taxes: A Win-Win-Win
Excerpts from the 2012 & 2014 Surgeon General's Reports Supporting Tobacco Tax Increases
Raising State Cigarette Taxes Always Increases State Revenues and Always Reduces Smoking
Responses to Misleading and Inaccurate Cigarette Company Arguments Against State Tobacco Tax Increases
Significant Tobacco Tax Increases Reduce Tobacco Use, Particularly among Youth, Despite Tobacco Company Price Discounts and Promotional Efforts
Tobacco Tax Increases are a Reliable Source of Substantial New State Revenue
State Cigarette Excise Tax Rates and Rankings
Map Showing State Cigarette Tax Rates
Cigarette Tax Increases By State Per Year, 2000-2024
Trends in Average State Cigarette Tax Rates
State Excise and Sales Taxes Per Pack of Cigarettes - Total Amounts and State Rankings
Local Government Cigarette Tax Rates
Top Combined State-Local Cigarette Tax Rates (State plus County plus City)
State Cigarette Tax Rates and Rank, Date of Last Increase, Annual Pack Sales and Revenues, and Related Data
State Cigarette Tax Increases Since Jan. 1, 2002 (With Political Party of Sitting Governor and Legislature)
State Excise Tax Rates for Non-Cigarette Tobacco Products
State Benefits from Increasing Smokeless Tobacco Tax Rates
How to Make State Cigar Tax Rates Fair and Effective
The Problem with RYO and Other Smoking Tobacco
The Case for High-Tech Cigarette Tax Stamps
State Cigarette Tax Increases Per Year (& Recessions) Since 1980
Tobacco Tax Increases Benefit Lower-Income Smokers & Families
State Tobacco Tax Increases Have a Minimal Impact on State Retailers and Jobs
Explanations and Sources for Projections of New Revenues and Benefits from State Tobacco Tax Increases
The Many Ways States Can Raise Revenue While Also Reducing Tobacco Use and Its Many Harms and Costs
State Options to Prevent and Reduce Cigarette Smuggling and to Block Other Illegal State Tobacco Tax Evasion
Effect of State Tobacco-Tax Increases on MSA and Phase II Payments to the States
State Cigarette Tax Increases and State Tobacco Settlement Revenues
The New York Story: Revenues from a $1.42 Per Pack Cigarette Tax Increase
Findings from an Indiana Statewide Survey