In all, 19 states have preemptive laws that stop local jurisdictions from setting their own legal minimum sales ages, according to the Preventing Tobacco Addiction Foundation, a nonprofit group known as Tobacco 21 that wants to raise the legal smoking age to 21
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The tobacco industry has a long history of claiming that policies to reduce smoking will lead to substantial increases in illicit trade, said Janet Chung-Hall, a research scientist for ITC and lead author of the new study, in a statement
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The state tax on smokeless tobacco products was increased to $2.57 per ounce or, if packaged in quantities of less than 1.2 ounces, $3.08 per package