People are a "little bit ashamed" to be seen carrying a cigarette pack with one of the new warnings on it, Dolmen's Christophe Blanc told Reuters news agency.

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She takes out a cigarette from a pack of Marlboro Lights 100s.

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Meanwhile, Clinton plans to make a strong statement today in support of the 20-cent-a-pack cigarette tax increase included in the Senate version of the budget.

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Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) that would have raised cigarette taxes 43 cents a pack.

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She showed them a pack with one cigarette missing.

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But a Congressional Budget Office analysis of the financial impact of a 50-cent-per-pack increase in cigarette taxes shows that while cutting the number of smokers trims government outlays over the short run, the increased longevity and higher end-of-life expenses of non-smokers eventually would cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars more from Medicare and Social Security.

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Part of the difficulty is how the Democrats are trying to pay for their health care expansion using not only the controversial Medicare changes, but an even more controversial 45-cents-per-pack increase in the cigarette tax.

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But the two senators have teamed up to try to extend health care insurance to poor children by hiking federal cigarette taxes by another 43 cents a pack.

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Perhaps the realization that he had just killed one British police officer and stamped the face of another into pulp was too much for a heart already overtaxed by the strain of his excessive weight and a three-pack-a-day cigarette habit.

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Enormous public health campaigns, starting with the 1965 government mandate that the Surgeon General's warning adorn every pack, have helped drive down cigarette use.

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Most studies conclude a cigarette costs 10 minutes of life, so a pack-a-day smoker (20 cigarettes a day) loses 13.9% of a year to the habit over the long haul.

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Last month, the Bloomberg administration unveiled a proposal to keep cigarettes out of sight in stores until an adult customer asks for a pack, as well as stopping shops from taking cigarette coupons and honoring discounts.

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Per Capita cigarette consumption peaked in 1975 at about 145 packages (20 per pack) and by 2011 had plummeted to 48.5 packs or two thirds the per person peak level.

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