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In a commentary on the research, Canadian scientists said international
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significant threat to comprehensive tobacco control,'' said Joanna
Cohen of the University of Toronto.
ludicrously low cigarette tax is not only
hurting Kentuckians by keeping it alluringly cheap to smoke and
depriving the state of badly needed revenue.
It is also cheap cigarettes online hurting other, more responsible
states by turning Kentucky into a haven for Internet cigarette sales.
As taxes and prices have gone up almost everywhere else, Internet
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and, worse, for youths to avoid their states' laws against sales to
minors.

For now, of course, Kentucky is getting a
little extra income from these Internet sales, since the suppliers do
pay the state's measly tax of 3 cents per pack.
But that return is coming at a high cost. For one thing, it places
Kentucky on the wrong side of the national debate over Internet
taxation. States generally agree that Internet transactions
cheap cigarettes online shouldn't escape normal state taxes,
since that puts local, non-Internet businesses at an unfair
disadvantage and since it also allows Internet customers to avoid
paying for the government services they enjoy.
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books.

It's not illegal to buy or sell cigarettes over the
Internet, but sellers and buyers appear to be obliged to report their
purchases and to pay any state taxes owed under the 1949 Jenkins Act.
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