Amal Tlaige reports for News10 in Albany that New York cigarette taxes go up one dollar on Sept. 1 to to $5.35 a pack. New York already had the highest cigarette taxes in the country. Adam Hoffer, Director of Excise Tax Policy at the Tax Foundation, said, “Fewer people will buy it, but the real question is how many fewer? And when something that’s addictive, the answer is very few people will actually quit smoking because of this one dollar per pack tax increase.” Trevor Summerfield, Director of Advocacy with the American Lung Association, said, “I don’t talk about this a lot but I was a former smoker. I decided to quit when it became too expensive due to taxes and also just wrapping my head around the negative health consequences of smoking." Seventy-six percent of New York's cigarette tax revenue goes to health care, and the remaining amount goes to the state’s general funds. Last year the state collected about a billion dollars in tax revenue from cigarette sales. Read more about this story at the News10 website.