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Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling

… the Center, continues to garner media attention. "Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling," released Dec. 2, 2008, and LaFaive were cited Friday in Chicago Talks … government revenue, and those higher taxes can also lead to more cigarette smuggling.

Wyoming Lights Up a Tax Hike

Op-ed published in Casper Star Tribune

… healthier. Why? Cross-state smuggling. It’s more common than you … degree to which cigarettes are smuggled between U.S. states, imported … Cowboy State was a source of smuggled smokes to other states. … Wyoming, an additional 17 were smuggled out to other states. The direction of smuggled smokes will reverse itself, …

Cigarette Smuggling Study Released

… recognized work on cigarette smuggling. The study ranks 47 states … degree to which cigarettes are smuggled in or out of each and confirms that Michigan’s smuggling rate has declined in recent … report “Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling: A Statistical Analysis and … arrests involving a cigarette smuggling cell operating in North Carolina …

Smuggling Study Continues

… to which cigarettes were smuggled into the state. There was … of hard data on cigarette smuggling in Michigan or elsewhere … remained the 10th-highest smuggling state at 25 percent of the … Lake State, one in four is smuggled in. Our original and subsequent … designed to measure the smuggling rates of just three states: …

Prohibition Doesn't Work — Need it be Said Again?

Efforts to eliminate flavored cigarettes or vaping products won't succeed

… that bans give birth to smugglers, as do high price differentials … result, both are a cigarette smuggler’s paradise. Banning flavored e-cigarettes will prompt more smuggling, enriching smugglers and the treasuries of bordering … degree to which cigarettes are smuggled because of tax evasion and …

Proposed Flavor Bans Invites Trouble

History shows prohibition doesn't work

… prohibition, leading to rampant smuggling and other very negative consequences … tobacco consumed in Vermont was smuggled in. That is relatively low … New Hampshire and brazen smugglers of illicit smokes and other … million as a direct result of smuggling in 2017. For every 100 cigarettes … 65 were acquired there and smuggled out. This latter figure will …

States Tempting Fate With Cigarette Bans

Some policies may make problems worse

… avoidance (what we call “smuggling”) for most U.S. states. We … worst among 47 states for smuggling. Nearly 20% of the state’s … explosion of additional smuggling by imposing an almost complete … troubled histories of cigarette smuggling, are also toying with a complete … behavior includes rampant smuggling and other lawlessness, including …

Where There’s Smoke, There’s Smuggling

… Detroit Free Press, the smuggling ring involved "104,300 cartons … Policy, "Cigarette Taxes and Smuggling," shows that this single … (legal and illegal) were smuggled into the state, and smuggling is not the only unintended … to terrorism. Cigarette smuggling is a function of two primary …

Prohibition Repealed 81 Years Ago Today

Similarities exist in cigarette market due to high taxes

… appendix to a large study on cigarette smuggling. The purpose of doing so was to … market. These high taxes encourage smuggling by individuals and organized crime … cigarettes consumed in Michigan were smuggled into the state. But smuggling isn’t the only parallel with the …

The National Vaping Ban is a Bad Idea

Mackinac Center signs onto coalition letter against national ban on flavored vaping

… possible increase in cigarette smuggling and the smuggling of flavored vaping products, … Prohibition and cigarette smuggling informs our decision. During … Lakes State due to rampant smuggling. One Michigan road trafficked … by casual and large-scale smugglers looking to save or make a …