This will result in speculation, extortion, bullying and even violence." (In case you were wondering, the Defense Department included free cigarettes in some K-rations until 1975.) The reason, Melnikova implies, is that troops won't necessarily quit smoking, and won't have enough money to pay for cigarettes over the counter, leading to a black market within the military
With the Australian Taxation Office estimating about a fifth of tobacco for sale is now illegal, the director of the Australian National Universitys tax and transfer policy institute, Bob Breunig, said the evidence is pretty clear that every time we raise excise at this point we are not reducing smoking at all
If you are reading this at 2am, coughing into a pillow and wondering whether quitting was a mistake, stay with me
Other states, including Michigan, are introducing bills to follow suit