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Seven Bucks A Pack? Better Have Money to Burn If You Smoke in New York.
Byline: Lisa Anderson
Jul. 2--NEW YORK--Among the nicotine-addicted masses huddled outside Manhattan's office buildings these days, where there's smoke, there's ire.
Already benumbed by the ubiquity of $1 million apartments, $100 theater tickets and $10 glasses of wine, some otherwise blase New Yorkers found themselves gasping anew on Monday as a city tax increase propelled the price of premium cigarettes as high as $7.50 a pack. At more than double the national average, these are the costliest cigarettes in the country and, according to an unscientific search of the Internet, the priciest on the planet.
City smokers will have to dig down about $2 deeper to light up than they did just three months ago, when the state boosted its tariff by 39 cents to $1.50 a pack. The city…
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