[aruanan]

The Bloomberg administration's new tax on cigarettes is expected to raise an additional 111 (M) million dollars of revenue this year.

This should read: The Bloomberg administration's new tax on cigarettes is expected to raise an additional 111 (M) million dollars of revenue this year for organized crime selling bootleg cigarettes and for cigarette merchants in surrounding states.

[katana]

Bingo ! You are exactly right. All this will do is fill the pockets of the Mafia and anyone else who can run a truck from the Carolinas.