TOUGH NEW YORK RESTRICTIONS LOWER SMOKING RATES, BUT BOOST SMUGGLING
March 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
Tough New York restrictions lower smoking rates, but boost smuggling
New York City has some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the United States, as well as high taxation. The city's health department says this is encouraging people to quit. But tobacco retailers say their customers are being forced into the black market by high costs.
NEW York City is well-known as the city that never sleeps, but with its strict anti-smoking policies and heavy taxation on cigarettes that has been ever-increasing for the last decade, is it on its way to ...
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