Innovative yet controversial, tobacco-control legislation like this is old hat for Massachusetts, which was a leader not only with the smoke-free workplace law in the early aughts but also with raising the legal purchase age to 21 and the ban on all flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes
But the increase was dramatically uneven: some states nearly doubled while others barely moved
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For example, research from the Tobacco Control Research Group at the University of Bath in 2022 found that roll-your-own tobacco is taxed at lower rates than factory-made cigarettes