I think sometimes legislators dont think through the ways people can avoid these things as much. (The Department of Revenues chief economist, Kazim Ozyurt, made a similar point in a presentation before the Illegal Tobacco Commission in November: Tax avoidance appears to be unavoidable in general, one of his slides began, before detailing ways to mitigate it.) In this view, figuring out the right place to set a cigarette tax is less a matter of simply passing a law, and more about finding the right balance among public health, budget needs, and crime
Mathematically, it equates to observed sales minus estimated smuggling
Tobacco is sometimes used in the rolling process
For this audience, the evaluation standard should be higher than average, not lower, precisely because the financial stakes are real
Early exposure may also affect normal lung growth in adolescents