July 24, 2006
USA Today -- California Cigarette Tax Could Skyrocket
The more important numbers for California are from its border states. In Nevada, the tax is 80 cents a pack. In Arizona and Oregon, it is $1.18 a pack. That means many of the state's 4 million smokers would be buying cigarettes over the state line. "People are always going to seek out low-cost cigarettes," says Patrick Fleenor, chief economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington.
