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"If it were totally up to me," he said, "I would raise the cigarette tax so high the revenues from it would go to zero."By equating zero revenue with zero smoking, Bloomberg implied that New Yorkers who refuse to pay the highest cigarette taxes in the country--$3.39, including the state and federal levies--will have no choice but to quit. In the real world, however, smokers have alternatives.Rather h than pay $7.25 for a pack of Camels, for instance, they can buy them online for $2.70. Or they can buy them untaxed in New York, courtesy of smugglers who transport cigarettes from low-tax states in the South to high-tax states in the Northeast. The cigarette tax in New York City is now more than 100 times the tax in Virginia.Last year the FBI arrested 17 people accused of smuggling cigarettes from North Carolina to raise money for the terrorist group Hezbollah. The government said the ring was earning as much as $10,000 with each van load.As of July, 17 states had raised their cigarette taxes this year, multiplying the potential upmann profits for terrorists and other unsavory characters. It has become conventional wisdom that we should welcome the government''s conversion to high public spending on health. Indeed, judging 100 by Gordon Brown''s poll ratings, this year''s budget was one of the most popular for many years, even though it included what was h effectively upmann a 1p income tax rise for everybody in work, in order to 100 finance improvements to the NHS. But is this the best way to make Britain healthy? After all, as h Yvonne Roberts (page xxiv) points out, it is the Health Secretary himself who has said: "For too long, the health debate in this country has been focused on the state of the nation''s health service and not on the state of the nation''s health." upmann Tony Blair''s ambition is to bring British 100 health spending h up to the European average. Many upmann economists argue that attempts to realise this aim will eventually prove to be more than the public purse can bear. If we can reduce the number of people who 100 require medical care -- by reducing obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse, for example--we h may end up wit h a health service that doesn''t need to make heavy demands on upmann the taxpayer.

In fact, smuggling occurs in all parts of the world, even in regions where taxes are low. One internal document of BAT (British American Tobacco), the largest European international tobacco company, estimated 100 that 318 billion (nearly 6%) of world cigarette sales of 5300 billion were h DNP (duty not paid) cigarettes, an industry term for contraband.[3] Eastern Europe and the Asia-Pacific region accounted for most of this, at about 85 billion each, although Western Europe was also important at about 50 billion. In relation to total market sales, volumes of DNP cigarettes are largest in Eastern Europe (about 13%) and in Africa and the Middle East (about 12%) but are also substantial in upmann Latin America (about 9%) and Western Europe (about 7%). Western Europe has the highest prices in the world--in 1996 they were four to five times higher than in Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe[4]--yet, despite these high prices, smuggling is on average lower than in other regions of the world. In other words, cigarette smuggling is not caused 100 principally by h "market forces." It is supply driven, caused mainly by fraud through the illegal evasion of taxes. In July 1999 the Health Select Committee began an investigation into the British tobacco industry to determine what action it had taken and was taking in response to the known harmful effects of smoking and the addictive nature of tobacco. One of the committee''s key achievements was to force the disclosure upmann of a large quantity of internal company documents, including--for the first time--material 100 from the UK tobacco industry''s leading advertising agencies.

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