what's the average price of a pack of cigarettes Chart: New York & D.C. Charge Highest Taxes on Financial impact of smoking

Death is a trailing indicator, and the decline in the smoking population should eventually mean fewer deaths

Our haunts were subway tunnels, the central hall of San Franciscos Natural History Museum at 2 a.m., high-school gymnasiums, suburban backyards, hilly landscapes, the tunnels of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, and so on

"These are the same lies as before that never came true," said Mike Roth, a spokesman for the cigarette tax ballot proposal, which was submitted last month and is pending in the attorney general's office

Secondly, there was a subtle psychological reason, the premise being that troops heading into battle wouldn't mind staying at a place where cigarettes must be plentiful and troops about to depart for combat would be somehow comforted in places with familiar names of cities back home (Camp Atlanta, Camp Baltimore, Camp New York, and Camp Pittsburgh, among others)