The Minneapolis City Council is considering making a pack of cigarettes no cheaper than $15 — before taxes — the highest in the nation. “That’s robbery,” said Ojo Trill after shopping at ...

Smokers in Minneapolis will pay some of the highest cigarette prices in the country after the City Council voted unanimously last week to impose a minimum retail price of $15 per pack to promote ...

UPDATE: The auction has since concluded with the unopened pack of American Spirit cigarettes once owned by Kurt Cobain going for $5,200. Yes, like everything else, the price of cigarettes has gone ...

ALBANY — New York’s cigarette tax rises another $1 per pack on Friday to the nation’s highest tax of $5.35. That will bring a typical cost of a pack of 20 cigarettes to more than $12 in most ...

But more of that cash might be going to taxes than you realize. In New Jersey, cigarettes are taxed at $2.70 a pack, the 14th highest in the nation, according to Center for Disease Control and ...