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• Online cigarette buyers won't escape taxes 

Smokers who bought cigarettes online hoping to avoid potentially costly taxes are in for a surprise -- Ohio Department of Taxation officials have begun mailing letters to collect more than $2.1 million from Internet purchasers for unpaid cigarette excise and sales taxes.

The department is mailing out 5,468 bills over the next few weeks for unpaid taxes on cigarettes purchased online between July 2007 and March 2008, , according to a press release.

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