{
  "id": 16650172,
  "title": "Cigarette Taxes and Cigarette Smuggling by State, 2024",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/cigarette-taxes-and-cigarette-smuggling-by-state-2024",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-26T18:37:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tax Foundation",
    "slug": "tax-foundation",
    "url": "https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/cigarette-taxes-smuggling-state/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Cigarette smuggling is costly for states. We estimate that the forgone revenue from smuggled cigarettes totaled more than $4.6 billion in 2024. California lost nearly $1.4 billion in cigarette excise tax collections, and New York missed out on more than $1.2 billion.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}