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While public health campaigns effectively reversed the epidemic smoking rates decreased more than 85 percent among young people from 1997 to 2022, according to the American Lung Association recent years have seen a resurgence of the trend

Nearly 9 out of 10 adults who smoke cigarettes daily first tried smoking by the age of 18 (CDC, 2024) Among past-month users of nicotine products, nearly two thirds of adolescents aged 12 to 17 (63.1%) vaped nicotine but did not use tobacco products (SAMHSA, 2022)

Take ASH for example

As a result, the effect of the measure on sales tax revenue could be positive, negative, or generally unchanged, depending on how consumers react

The tax is calculated based on the taxable sales priceeither the purchase price from a non-affiliated seller or the actual selling price if affiliated