This was predicted by every economist and forward thinker from day one. Raise taxes too much and you create an underground economy. Keep taxes reasonable and the tax money flows in. Basic econ 101.
By Far the greatest percentage of dollars paid for a pack of cigarettes goes to Taxes.
the taxers know we wont quit,....and its about the money and the CONTROL both.
Im remembering with glee when the last fifty cent a pack tax hike was added to a packof smokes. Oh those were the days