Source: KSL Channel 5 (Salt Lake City, UT)
Date: 2010-07-01
Author: Paul Nelson

Starting Thursday, it will cost more to smoke. A new tobacco tax
goes into effect, raising the price of a pack of cigarettes up a
dollar.

Some doctors say most smokers want to quit. Paying more money to
smoke may just convince them to drop the habit.

"We find that something like a tobacco tax is a great cue," says
Dr. Tamara Lewis, community health and prevention medical
director for Intermountain Health Care. "What it does, it helps
people rethink and reevaluate."

"We find that something like a tobacco tax is a great cue. What
it does, it helps people rethink and reevaluate." -Dr. Tamara
Lewis

Lewis says she has seen studies showing an up to 10-percent drop
in smokers for every dollar increase in tobacco tax.