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But that is not happening, according to Mark
Smith, a spokesman for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. "I've yet to
see one Internet company out there that is collecting taxes and
verifying age," he said.
Moreover, added Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids, "Internet sales to marlboro cigarettes online
kids is an emerging and growing problem."
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down on such suspect practices. But the best marlboro
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for them.
Kentucky should join the vast majority marlboro cigarettes online of
other states, whose average cigarette tax is now 58.8 cents per pack,
and raise its rate to a level that is both socially responsible and
fiscally productive.

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online opportunities without losing sleep over getting caught.
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a report about cigarette sales over the Internet that was recently
marlboro cigarettes online prepared by the U.S. General Accounting
Office. The 55-page analysis examines how the 50 states are doing
collecting excise taxes that are payable on cigarettes sold by the 147
online tobacco merchants the GAO could identify.

How are the states doing? Let's put it this
way: Next time someone lights a cigarette near you, try grabbing a
handful of the smoke. . . . That's how they're doing.
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online but does cite a year-old Forrester Research estimate that U.S.
online tobacco sales will reach $5 billion by 2005
and that the states will lose out on $1.4 billion as a result.