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.
Cigarettes are cheap in California. Because current cigarette taxes are so low in California, cigarettes are cheaper here than in the US as a whole. According to The Tax Burden on Tobacco (page 182) in 2010 the average pack of cigarettes in California costs $5.374 compared to$5.554 for the US as a whole. The low price in California reflects the tobacco companies' success in keeping taxes in California; total taxes only comprise 35.0% of the price of a pack of cigarettes compared to 44.2% for the US as a whole. Cheap cigarettes promote smoking.