X-Files: The Cigarette-Smoking Man's First Death & Return Despite a few close calls, the Cigarette-Smoking Man was able to survive the first seven seasons of The X-Files mostly unscathed
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Moreover, increases in taxes should be meaningful and they should not be phased in, so that they have the strongest effect on changing tobacco use behaviors
As smoking rates fall, the tax base erodesrequiring ever-larger rate increases to maintain revenue
For example, the FDA has recently announced its intent to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes nationwide.[11] If the lesson out of Massachusetts is any indication, such a ban, which would criminalize the sale of over a third of the current national market, could have a massive impact on revenue generation.[12] Massachusetts has collected roughly 25 percent less revenue since imposing a menthol ban in June 2020,[13] and while Massachusetts has to contend with smuggling of menthol cigarettes from other states where they are still legal, a federal ban would likely lead to a rise in international smuggling of menthol cigarettes
