| The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 36 Taxation |
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| The US in 1993 had the lowest cigarette tax in the developed world, 46 cents a pack |
| for federal plus average state tax. Denmark's is $4.07 a pack, and other countries with |
| more than $3.25 include Norway, Canada, Finland, and the United Kingdom. |
| Hospital Practice, June 15, 1993, p. 10 |
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| The first federal excise tax was imposed in 1862 to finance the Civil War, and tobacco |
| taxes were the chief source of government revenue until the income tax. |
| American Medical News, November 14, 1994, p. 16 |
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| Only one in six American voters is aware that US cigarette taxes are far lower than |
| those in other developed countries. |
| 9th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, Paris, 1994 |
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| In March 1994, RJR and Philip Morris transported 16,000 of their employees in a |
| 162-bus caravan to Washington, DC in a demonstration to protest any tobacco tax |
| increase. |
| SCARC (Advocacy Institute), April 11, 1994, and New York Times, March 8, 1994, |
| p. A14 |
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| State and federal taxes have declined as a proportion of the retail price of cigarettes |
| from 47% of a pack in 1955 to 24% in 1993, the lowest percentage on record. |
| American Medical News, October 11, 1993, p. 6 |
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| Each penny of the federal cigarette excise tax generates almost $300 million in |
| revenue. |
| Tobacco Use: An American Crisis, p. 69 |
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