Growing cigarette tax differentials have made cigarette smuggling both a national problem and a lucrative criminal enterprise
Any consideration of menthol prohibition should be made in the context of extremely low youth use of the product, the lack of association between menthol use rates in states and youth smoking, the costs of enforcing prohibition, especially for minority communities, and other less costly ways of reducing smoking, such as increasing the availability of safer nicotine alternatives like e-cigarettes and traditional smoking cessation services, wrote Reason Foundation policy experts Guy Bentley and Jacob James Rich in an analysis
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While the government is keen to present to the UK public with elections looming that vaping will be cheaper than this one-off tobacco duty increase, they have also announced a new duty on vape products (also 1st of October 2026)
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