“Sin Taxes” are aggressively regressive

https://iea.org.uk/sin-taxes-are-aggressively-regressive/

Dilemmas, Sins And More Wayfair: SALT In Review

https://www.law360.com/tax-authority/state-local/articles/1067694

New Jersey enacts and proposes myriad sales and use tax and other excise tax changes

https://taxnews.ey.com/news/2018-1424-new-jersey-enacts-and-proposes-myriad-sales-and-use-tax-and-other-excise-tax-changes

Are Sin Taxes Healthy for State Budgets?

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/2018/07/19/are-sin-taxes-healthy-for-state-budgets

How Stable is Cigarette Tax Revenue?

https://taxfoundation.org/cigarette-tax-revenue-tool/

EXTRAS ON EXCISE: REGULATING E-CIGARETTES IS STATE LEGISLATURES’ ENDS GAME

https://www.bna.com/extras-excise-regulating-b57982085923/

Illinois men charged with tax crimes in Minnesota

http://www.revenue.state.mn.us/newsroom/Documents/20170320%20Ugurlu-Majid%20tobacco.pdf

Gotta watch out for those "Illinois men."

Tobacco changes in CA

http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/l495.pdf

http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/l494.pdf

EXTRAS ON EXCISE: SMOKE ‘EM IF YOU GOT ‘EM; CALIFORNIA’S TOBACCO TAXES SET TO SKYROCKET IN 2017

https://www.bna.com/extras-excise-smoke-b57982083856/

Cigarette and Tobacco Products Tax Rate Increase and New Products Subject to Tax

http://www.boe.ca.gov/pdf/l488.pdf

Cigarette Taxes and Cigarette Smuggling by State, 2014

http://taxfoundation.org/article/cigarette-taxes-and-cigarette-smuggling-state-2014

I'm kind of bothered by the creation of a crime simply by the tax differential between states. This seems like there should be a way to manage the situation without allowing criminal enterprises to take advantage of this.

New York's Cigarette Strike Force Also Seizes More Than 260,000 Illegal Cigars in 2016

http://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-more-53000-cartons-contraband-cigarettes-seized-2016-0

2017 sales tax changes

https://www.avalara.com/blog/2016/12/01/2017-sales-tax-changes/

EXTRAS ON EXCISE: HOW FAR WILL PEOPLE GO FOR CHEAPER CIGARETTES?

http://www.bna.com/extras-excise-far-b73014447994/

Strike Force Arrests Grocery Store Worker for Possession of Contraband Cigarettes

https://tax.ny.gov/press/rel/2016/cigstrikeforcebrooklyn112216.htm

North Metro men charged with more tax crimes

http://www.revenue.state.mn.us/newsroom/Documents/20161116%20AlSayab%20Masoud%20tobacco.pdf

California gets serious about smoking prevention

http://www.taxrates.com/blog/2016/11/10/california-gets-serious-about-smoking-prevention/

A voter’s guide to tax-related ballot measures

http://www.taxrates.com/blog/2016/11/08/a-voters-guide-to-tax-related-ballot-measures/

http://www.bna.com/extras-exciseelection-edition-b57982082526/

Covering California, Missouri, Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, Oklahoma, Georgia, Washington

'Well-connected' cigar industry spared tax in Pa.

http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/11291168-74/tax-state-vaping

Competing Visions for Tobacco Taxes in Colorado and North Dakota

http://taxfoundation.org/blog/competing-visions-tobacco-taxes-colorado-and-north-dakota