Boost in Md. cigarette taxes a boon for smugglers

(Baltimore Sun) ... But Mackinac researchers compared legal cigarette sales with each state's actual level of smoking as shown by federal health surveys. The difference was probably smuggling. ... With next-door Virginia taxing smokes at only 30 cents a pack, the Mackinac center calculates, as many as half of all cigarettes consumed in Maryland these days are illegal. Continued