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Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling 2010

An Update of Earlier Research

… Michael LaFaive and Todd Nesbit update their 2008 cigarette taxes and smuggling study titled “Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling: A Statistical and Historical Review.” The update includes new statistical …

Trends in Estimated Smuggling Rates

… estimates suggest that cigarette smuggling rates across the country … 2009 revision of 2006 state smuggling rates, we estimated Michigan’s total net smuggling rate at just over 31 percent … estimate for Michigan’s net smuggling rate in 2009 is just 26 percent. … literature on cigarette smuggling), this tax hike reduced the …

$1 Cigarette Tax Hike Helps Smugglers, Not Health Outcomes

Prohibition by price drives consumers to alternatives

… primarily on the amount of smuggling these high taxes generate … sold in each state that are smuggled in to avoid high taxes. … cigarettes smoked here were smuggled in. It shows also that raising … certainly drive the proportion of smuggled smokes much higher — to 35.1 … undermined by the increased smuggling that accompanies a tax hike. …

Overall Smuggling Volumes for 2009

… have examined cigarette smuggling in terms of smuggling rates — i.e., smuggling as a percentage of a state’s … state with a relatively high smuggling rate may not experience a large volume of smuggled cigarettes relative to other …

Higher Cigarette Taxes Create Lucrative, Dangerous Black Market

… one has led to a spike in smuggling-related criminal activity … the Great Lake State were smuggled in. The destructive consequences of rampant tobacco smuggling include the corruption of … of estimates for tobacco smuggling in 47 of the 48 contiguous … representing our estimate of smuggling. Michigan’s smuggling rate …

Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling

Cigarette Taxes & Smuggling Menu Interactive Map Studies Articles … been studying cigarette smuggling rates since 2008. Our research, … suggests that cigarette smuggling is a real problem in the … likely to have high cigarette smuggling rates, as the tax disparities … earn easy profits. Illegal smuggling deprives governments of tax …

The Cost of High Cigarette Taxes

Research reveals unintended consequences of tax

… study — Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling: A 2016 Update — with Mackinac … Todd Nesbit. To determine smuggling rates across the country, … the two is attributed to smuggling, either casual or commercial. … rate makes it a hotbed for smuggling: … A resident of New York … their tobacco elsewhere.” Smuggling can come at a high cost to …

New Smuggling Estimates

… highest inbound cigarette smuggling rates were Arizona, where … highest inbound cigarette smuggling rate, with over half of all … cigarette consumption coming from smuggled sources. This is noteworthy. … raising the incentive to smuggle cigarettes from Mexico to … the state rankings of net smuggling rates: Texas, from 16th to …