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VIDEO: New Bottle Deposits, Higher Fees  

Smokers will pay $3 a pack in state taxes, up from $2 a pack. That means a two-pack-a-day smoker will pay $6 a day, or nearly $2,200 each year, in cigarette taxes alone.

In addition, the tobacco products tax -- which applies to cigars, pipe tobacco and similar products -- goes up from 20 percent to 27.5 percent of the wholesale price, and the tax on snuff tobacco goes from 40 cents to 55 cents an ounce.

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