Increase in Tobacco Tax leads to decrease in tax revenues from cigarette sales in Chicago by Richard Thomas

Increase in Tobacco Tax leads to decrease in tax revenues from cigarette sales in Chicago

and investigate the sales of cigarettes at over 70,000 businesses in Chicago, Stein said. Stein could not give numbers on the fines given to street peddlers, but said the department does investigate and fine them, too. “We have a responsibility to even investigate and fine street peddlers that sell cigarettes without a license, not just businesses,” said Stein. [7]

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