The Futility of Tobacco Taxes: Why They Fail to Curb Smoking

By Cody Carden | June 13, 2024

Washignton, DC: For the better part of the last two decades, anti-tobacco advocates have turned their attention towards pursuing legislative endeavors that seek to implement massive tax increases on tobacco products with the goal of curbing usage while increasing revenue into government coffers. The logic seems straightforward: hike taxes and consumption will drop.  While harm reduction efforts geared towards other categories of tobacco are justified by mortality, morbidity, and youth usage impact data, targeting premium cigars is not. Hand-rolled cigars continue to be a target of legislators and anti-smoking groups and Cigar Rights of America is fighting these proposals across the nation. 

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