Florida Smokers Hit With New Tax Per Pack  

The state's new cigarette tax kicked in Wednesday which increases Florida's cigarette tax from .34 cents a pack to a $1.34 a pack. State legislators passed the law during the recent legislative session.

Henry Robles, who was buying a couple of extra packs Tuesday night at a Shell gas station on Sunrise Boulevard in Ft. Lauderdale, said he planed to keeping up his two-pack-per-day habit knowing that the new tax was going to burn a hole in his pocket.

"I really don't want to think about it but I think it's gonna be a lot (of money)," Robles told CBS 4's Carey Codd.

The clerk at the gas station said cigarette sales were brisk Tuesday, as smokers stocked up in advance of the new tax.

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