Bad News for Cigarette Smokers in California: Cigarette Tax To Be Imposed Starting Today

A whole new set of taxes called cigarette tax has been put into effect from today in California. This is going to affect the smokers. An additional two dollars per pack of cigarettes is to be charged from today and hence making cigarettes dearer. The smokers of California had a previous idea about this particular tax on cigarettes when the proposition 56 was passed in November last year. This has made several smokers of California to stock up a large pile of packets of cigarettes to save on the taxes. On the other hand, some of the smokers took this move as a good one deciding to quit their habit of smoking which was what the legislators of California were looking for.

According to The Mercury News, this new cigarette tax in the latest of the series of attacks on tobacco by the lawmakers of California. Last year a law was passed in California which made it illegal for anyone to purchase the products of tobacco under eighteen years of age. In addition to this, all kindergarten to the twelfth-grade campuses in the entire state of California are strictly no smoking zones and are cigarette free. Moreover, California has become the first state that gives no legal distinction between e-cigarettes, vaping cigarettes, and smoking tobacco.

As per Hoodline, the last attack has been particularly very successful from preventing the teenagers from taking up the habit of nicotine, a habit that could have been easily giving rise to a full-fledged one of using cigarettes since both e-cigarettes and vaping cigarettes are extremely popular among that particular age group.

The additional two dollars of cigarette tax that has been put into effect today is equal to around a total of 2.87 dollars of tax that has to be paid on the purchase of each packet of cigarettes.