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According to MassDPH, the report, which focused solely on menthol-flavored tobacco products, concluded that restricting menthol cigarette sales reduced smoking prevalence in Massachusetts by 1.37 percentage points between June 2020 and January 2023. READ MORE: Massachusetts Eyes First-in-the-Nation Nicotine Ban While that may not seem like a significant decrease, MassDPH said economists projected reductions in chronic diseases and resulting health care costs for lung cancer, heart attack, and stroke
Economists recognize that this is one reason that actual revenues received from cigarette tax increases often fall short of projections.6 Another concern when states raise cigarette taxes is that high cigarette taxes tend to induce border shopping.7 Border shopping is another form of tax evasion and occurs when the residents of a state cross state lines to purchase cigarettes in a lower-tax state
This, however, was based only on data about male individuals
And despite being told not to alter their smoking patterns as their quit-day approached, they did decrease their smoking by an average of 29%
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