Nevertheless, the state of New Jersey recently witnessed a revenue decline after a cigarette tax increase - in this case, in the year following a fiscal 2007 tax hike from $2.40 per pack to $2.575 per pack.[5] Newly available fiscal 2008 data indicate that the net decline has occurred for the second year in a row.[] While some of this decline may be due to people quitting cigarettes, some is probably due to increased consumption of smuggled tobacco
The Union budget this year further increased the excise duty on cigarettes by 18%, while some states like West Bengal and Assam increased VAT on cigarettes
Before parting with the order, the Bench observed that the States of Punjab and Haryana were also impleaded as parties to the petition
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Tom Frieden, who was CDC director under President Barack Obama, called the cuts a gift to Big Tobacco. The only winner here is the tobacco industry and cancer cells, said Frieden, president and chief executive of Resolve to Save Lives, a global health initiative
