Thursday, July 22, 2010

Decline in smoking means decline in state revenue

By Ali Eaves
Special to Stateline
Stateline.org

Americans are smoking less and less. That’s good news for public health, but it creates an ironically nasty side effect for many state budgets. They have grown dependent on an annual stream of money from tobacco companies, and that money is itself dependent on the number of people who consume cigarettes.

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