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.
The average state cigarette excise tax among major tobacco-growing states (Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee) was 38.5 cents per pack on April 1, 2009, compared with 7 cents on December 31, 1995 (a 444% increase).