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The Brazilian Congress has heightened a ban currently in place to include enclosed areas in airports and bars, where smoking rooms have previously been exempt from the regulations. Additionally, Brazil will increase taxes on tobacco products and implement a minimum price rate for all tobacco products sold within the country. The cost to consumers will increase by 55 percent over a four-year period.

The restriction increases to the country's smoking ban, as reported by the Associated Press (AP), is directed to eliminate cigarettes entering the country illegally through Paraguay that are sold for a fraction of the price of Brazilian-made cigarettes.

For all persons who smoke tobacco, the health risks are imminent. Continue Reading

If you are still a tobacco cigarette smoker, you'll notice that the prices keep increasing. The primary reason for large price hikes is a higher tax rate. Taxes fuel the government's accounts, providing funding for many much needed programs. The other reason for tax hikes on tobacco products is to encourage people to quit. Some people might be deterred from buying another pack when they hear the price (As high as $15 a pack in New York City!), but not everyone will abandon one of hardest addictions to break.

According to a recent study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health conducted in Canada at Concordia University by economists found smokers between the age of 25 and 44 were most unresponsive to price increases. Higher taxes do prompt low and middle income earners to make additional attempts at quitting. Continue Reading

As New Yorkers continue to face steep tobacco taxes, now government officials are planning to ban e-cigs--but is it fair?

Rising tobacco costs force smokers to fork over thousands of their hard-earned dollars every year. Here are a few better ways to use your money.

A federal judge has put his decision on hold regarding taxation of tribal tobacco products the same as others in New York State. Both sides are vowing victory.

Since the July 1st implementation of a tax that makes a pack of cigarettes cost over $11.00 each, customers are fleeing to bordering states with lower rates--and New York is losing much needed revenue.

Attempt to curb smoking by raising taxes has only encouraged smokers to obtain illegal black market tobacco products and support Canadian organized crime.