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Some hope the tax hike will help lower the number of smokers in Kentucky, but longtime smokers say it wont affect their habit

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The relative differences in smoking by mortality (RRs) are likely to go up both early in the tobacco epidemic (due to time-lags from smoking initiation to mortality impact) and also may increase later in the tobacco epidemic (if the fall in never smoker mortality is faster than any fall in the absolute harms of tobacco)

In the face of such an incentive, the approximately two-thirds of states with cigarettes taxes of less than $2 (including a dozen with current rates of less than 75 cents a pack) would be foolish not to boost their tax to at least the $2 level