The primary reason for its addictiveness is the presence of nicotine, a naturally occurring compound in the tobacco plant
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If it passes, that will mean you would pay more than $5 in taxes (there is already a $3 tax on cigarettes) per pack of cigarettes in the state just in taxes
It's hard to believe that there was once a time when cigarette companies actually had doctors endorsing their products, but studies didn't start linking smoking and lung cancer until the 1940's and 1950's, and it wasn't until 1964 that the US Surgeon General actually concluded that "cigarette smoking is a cause of lung and laryngeal cancer in men, a probable cause of lung cancer in women, and the most important cause of chronic bronchitis in both sexes"
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Naturally, New Yorks Independent Budget Office attributes this small uptick to a reduced budget for anti-smoking campaigns
