Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
In the last few years, the number of cigarettes sold in the United States plummeted by roughly one-third, from almost 204 billion in 2020 to 138 billion in 2024. The share of American adults who smoke has been falling for decades and is at or near an all-time low. And yet the tobacco industry is … Read more
In the “who could have seen that coming” department…. As cigarette taxes have risen across the country, so too has cigarette smuggling across state lines, causing billions of dollars of tax revenue losses for high-tax states. That’s according to reports from the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation and a yearly analysis by the Michigan-based Mackinac Center … Read more