Since that time, the cigarette tax rate has been raised nine times, most recently in 2003 when the tax per cigarette went to $0.0285 from $0.014 the single largest increase in the history of the tax, which was enacted to fill a 2003 budget gap.12 The initial tobacco tax rate had been unchanged until it was raised in 1994 to 40% of sales price, from 35%
guests can receive care five to seven days a week for a number of hours each day, returning back to their sober living homes in the evening
The tobacco industry then hired the consulting firm of Economic Research Associates (ERA), which produced a report claiming Proposition 5 would cost taxpayers $19.7 million to post No Smoking signs in state buildings.11 ERA produced a second report stating that enforcement would cost another $23 million, bringing the total alleged cost to $43 million, twice the amount that the tobacco industry needed to push voters toward a no vote.12 To obtain the $19.7 million cost estimate, ERA assumed that No Smoking signs would cost $27.50 each, even though hardware stores were selling them for less than $1.00
In the following decades, tobacco use among Europeans increased not only for medicinal purposes, but for recreational reasons as well
