and Puerto Rico have passed comprehensive smoke-free indoor air laws that include e-cigarettes, as of March 31, 2023
This decline translates to $135 million less cigarette tax revenue for Massachusetts (not including lost revenue from sales tax and smokeless tobacco sales)
High-tax states are typically concentrated in the Northeast and West Coast, while low-tax states are concentrated in the South and Great Plains.
This is the fundamental reason why the government has dragged its feet in tobacco control. This is where we are going to sell cigarettes When American tobacco baron James Duke was told of the invention of an automatic cigarette rolling machine in the late 19th century, he thumbed through an atlas, noted Chinas large population, and remarked, That is where we are going to sell cigarettes, according to an account by the historian Sherman Cochran
The regions e-cigarette and vape sector is thriving, because the younger population in this region is accepting vaping as a safer option