An $80 million revenue increase will do little to make up for the billion-dollar predicted shortfall especially if price-sensitive smokers quit, smoke less, or purchase cigarettes in New Hampshire, thereby forgoing the tax altogether
While I do my best to write meaningful posts with good intentions and cite sources when I have the bandwidth, I do not have the capacity nor the expertise to fact-check research as a trained professional journalist would
Tobacco is a taboo word nowadays but, as Richard Klein points out in Cigarettes are Sublime, Americans gripped in the current hysteria have forgotten the affectionate identification of the doughboys uniform with Lucky Strike Green, and the European hopes and the American pride associated, in 1914, with the promise that the Camels are coming. Klein goes on to quote from a pleading letter written by General Pershing, commander of the American troops, to the Minister of War in 1918: You ask what we need to win this war
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Is carrying vapes and e-cigarettes on a flight possible
