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Jump to full article: New York Daily News, 2008-04-04
Intro: Manhattan: Re "Cigs to hit $9 a pack" (April 1): The real cost of smoking is not the pack price, but the loss of thousands of New Yorkers to strokes, hearts attacks and cancer. . . .
A $1.50 tax increase would reduce the number of adult smokers by more than 150,000 and prevent more than 50,000 early deaths statewide. Thousands of kids would quit smoking as a result of high cigarette prices, and thousands more would never start.
--Sarah B. Perl, assistant commissioner Bureau of Tobacco Control N.Y.C. Department of Health & Mental Hygiene
Brooklyn: How dare they even suggest banning smoking from homes ("Puffs get snuffed," March 30)? What is this, Russia?
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