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Smoking is expensive because of taxes. Cigarettes are seen as an unnecessary luxury at best and so are often targeted for tax increases. As a result more than 50% of the cost of cigarettes is tax.

On the rare occasion that cigarettes are available without paying taxes (Indian reservations or military bases) they are much less expensive.

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