In addition, travelers buying duty-free at the airport can avoid the value-added tax (also known as VAT, a local sales tax that's most common in Europe)
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In estimates of overall smuggling rates for 2006, we calculate that Rhode Island (45.7 percent), New Mexico (42.4 percent) and the state of Washington (42.3 percent) had the highest smuggling import rates as a percent of the estimated total cigarette consumption
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"People go to illicit retailers or native American reservations." Regarding the one dollar increase in the state cigarette tax, to $5.35 a pack, which would propel New York State to have the highest cigarette tax in the nation, Sopris does not expect it will have any real impact on smoking rates