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• Target 12 Cigarette tax cash going up in smoke 

The Target 12 Investigators uncover tax dollars going up in smoke. We confront cigarette sellers after discovering some may not be honest in paying cigarette taxes.

Target 12 has learned that Rhode Island is losing thousands, potentially millions of dollars to retailers who try and cheat the system and pocket the cash themselves.

Rhode Island raked in more than a hundred million dollars last year. The money was used to pay for things like education and public safety. But now, with the highest cigarette taxes in the country, there's temptation to cheat.

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