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Stephen Hahn tweeted last week

Tobacco & South Boston from the files of Kenneth Cook The history of South Boston has from the beginning been closely associated with tobacco, and for good reason

In contrast, in fiscal year 2018, states dedicated only $721.6 million in tobacco prevention spending, less than 3 percent of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendation

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%