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Increasing cigarette tax has had mixed results 

The decline in cigarette purchase is evidence that heavy taxing does work -- but it hasn't led to a decline in smoking, according to a 2008 research study by the Harvard School of Public Health.

The study found that "price increases have proven to be the single most effective form of curbing tobacco use in the U.S. population," but that smokers are replacing cigarettes with small cigars, snuff and roll-your-own products, which are subject to 1/10th the federal tax of cigarettes.

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