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Angie Craig: Is it not so that countries that have increased the price per pack of cigarettes dramatically, and found that those…

On the recordMay 20, 1998
Is it not so that countries that have increased the price per pack of cigarettes dramatically, and found that those cigarettes then moved into a black market, backed away from those taxes to bring those products back into the market and away from the illicit activity of the black market?
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Angie Craig
Democratic · Minnesota

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Discussing the impact of cigarette taxes on black market activity.

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