You keep saying it's a liberal law. It was pushed and passed by conservative mayors. The increase in cigarette taxes came mostly during the term of Rudy Giuliani, a Republican who served from 1994 to 2001 and Michael Bloomberg, a Republican who later turned Independent and who served through the end of 2013. The current mayor is indeed a liberal. But he's the first liberal Mayor in over 20 years and he hasn't raised any cigarette taxes yet.
12/7/14 at 10:21am