The Columbian Exchange became the major trade route of the sixteenth and later centuries, taking the place of the Indian Ocean Trade Routes, which also impacted the Europeans, Africans, Arab Traders, and Asians.
The new tax raises Nevadaâs cigarette tax from 80 cents to $1.80 a pack and takes the price of an average pack of smokes in Nevada from about $5 to $6 dollars, said Kelli Goatley-Seals, Washoe Countyâs health education coordinator of the Chronic Disease Prevention Program.
Thirty states have cigarette tax rates of $1 per pack or higher, and California is well below other west coast states (Washington: $3.025, Oregon: $1.18, and Arizona: $2). California last raised its tobacco tax in 1998.