While Virginia's cigarette tax rate of 30 cents has remained unchanged for at least a decade, West Virginia's rate of $1.20 per pack joined 33 other states that now collect at least $1 per pack of cigarettes or more, according to Washington-based Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Some 116 of these 137 countries have seen their tobacco use rates decline since implementing the measures, which include stronger measures for monitoring tobacco use
Testifying before the HHS committee last week, Jon Shaer, executive director of the New England Convenience Store and Energy Marketers Association, pointed to the experience of Massachusetts, which passed a similar ban on flavored tobacco products last June
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