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[DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] 90.ArRejaie AS, Al-Aali KA, Alrabiah M, et al

With tobacco cigarettes becoming increasingly highly regulated and taxed, traditional cigarette smoking is becoming less and less appealing and accessible for many people, not to mention the huge number of personal and public health benefits that come from quitting smoking

The researchers collected discarded cigarette packs across 30 census tracts in the five New York City boroughs in February 2024 and then examined each pack for a tax stamp to determine if and where taxes were paid on the cigarettes.[4] One in six (17%) of the littered packs they collected bore the proper city tax stamp.[5] This is a new low, dropping from 39% having the correct stamp in 2011 to 24% in 2015, according to previous collections in New York City.[6] One in five (20%) packs had no tax stamp at all

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