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Tobacco: government taxes and monopoly in the early days.
It is often assumed that the heavy taxing of Tobacco is a recent phenomenon. The study of History brings counter intuitive results. It is to be noted that the Government have always being meddling with...
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Tobacco: Importance of Tobacco taxes for the colonies around the American...
The Tobacco was not only important for England in the early days of the American colonies, but also for the colonies taxes as well. As Jacobstein wrote in 1907. “The direct and indirect effect of the...
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War Financing with Tobacco Napoleonic Wars, Civil war and Spanish American...
It is a recurring fact in history that governments heavily use Tobacco as a tax collection mechanism, here we discuss the instances during which it was used to finance wars along with salient data...
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Measuring the wages in cigarettes, the low government taxes of 1905 and need...
In 1905, a pack of 15 cigarettes had a price of 7.5 cents, you can infer that as the mid price between the sweet Caporal for 10 cigarettes produced by the Tobacco Trust and the competing admiral brand...
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