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Although the federal government had been taxing tobacco since the 18 th century and cigarettes specifically since 1862, states did not begin doing so until the early 20 th century when manufactured cigarettes surpassed plug tobacco as the highest-grossing tobacco product in the country

Long, "Control of the Sale of Cigarettes in Interstate Commerce," in Proceedings of the 19 th Annual Meeting of the National Tobacco Tax Association (Chicago: Federation of Tax Administrators, 1945), 11

Some evidence exists suggesting an under-reporting of cigarette consumption in survey data, such as the BRFSS.[] However, this issue more readily plagues estimates of smoking intensity (i.e., cigarette consumption per day) than it does estimates of smoking prevalence

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