It's the biggest increase on state smokers since the tax was started in 1935
We got an apartment in the city, in D.C., and things didnt really go that way
In 2023, the commonwealth received an estimated $598 million in tobacco-related revenue, including more than $340 million from cigarette taxes, yet allocated only $6.1 million to tobacco control programs such as education, cessation, and youth prevention less than one cent for every dollar received
As required under the FCLAA, the new cigarette health warnings, once finalized, would appear prominently on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements, occupying the top 50 percent of the area of the front and rear panels of cigarette packages and at least 20 percent of the area at the top of cigarette advertisements