Texas' current cigarette tax of about one-dollar-40-cents is not far behind the national average, but it lags behind the highest tax in the U.S. which is in New York at four-dollars-35-cents. Hansen says increasing the tobacco tax by one-dollar would also stop 150-thousand Texas kids from starting smoking and save more than 48-million-dollars in lung, heart and stroke-related health care costs.
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