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N.Y. cig tax a border boon? 

Jump to full article: Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA), 2010-07-02
Author: Garett Sloane, Berkshire Eagle Staff

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HILLSDALE, N.Y. -- If the Marlboro Man were a New Yorker, he'd be trotting his horse into Massachusetts for cheaper smokes.

That was the instinct of a number of New York state smokers after a whopping new price tag on cigarettes went into effect on Thursday. The state added a $1.60 tax to smokes, raising the price on some packs to more than $10.

At that price, a run for the state border was in order.

The number of smoking refugees flooding to Berkshire stores "will be phenomenal," said Stephen Dellea, 43, a decades-long smoker from Copake Falls, N.Y.

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