This is due to a provision included in the "2023 Budget Law" aimed at reshuffling the consumption tax between different products through a tax change
Cristine Delnevo, director of the Rutgers Center for Tobacco Studies and a professor at the Rutgers School of Public Health, recently published three studies showing that menthol cigarette smoking persists in the United States, particularly among vulnerable populations, despite population-level cigarette declines
The legislation would also double the tax on other tobacco products, including moist snuff and loose leaf
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The vast majority of these products are imported from China, which banned the domestic sale of flavored vapes in 2022, spurring companies there to turn their focus to the U.S
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