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Show Cigarette use down in Utah, according to recent report hxs the lowest per cap- U'tPon 0f ciarettes i' Entire nation. Th.s was 1 i in a study completed Foundation from in- the National To-SfWc To-SfWc Association. reoort shows that Utahs ,1 approximately 1 "arettes (or 62 million ;. ,s, during 1964. Average ' , consumption in Utah p ted to 1,264 cigarettes p t 63 Pas) per person. jboUv the per capita con- 'of cigarettes was ;he Utah rate, or 2,597 .. trea V Person (13 in 1964. L the figures are delated i ? adult population only, 11 Foundation report shows ' Sinual cigarette consump-; consump-; -'e ta Utah to be 2,221 :: 5 packs) per person in the fL and over age group. 13 C nation as a whole, per capita consumption in the 18 years and over age group amounted to 4,096 cigarettes (205 packs) during 1964. Utah is also the low state in the nation na-tion by this measure. The "lung cancer scare" of the past five years has had only a slight moderating effect on the smoking habits of Utahns. To illustrate, total cigarette consumption in Utah increased from 48.2 million packs in 1955 to 62.5 million packs in 1960 and 62.9 million packs in 1965. One per capita basis, however, annual cigarette cigar-ette consumption in Utah was equal to 61.5 packs per person in 1965, 69.4 packs in 1960, and 63.5 packs in 1965. By contrast, cigarette consumption consump-tion throughout the United States rose from 114.8 packs per person in 1955 to 130.1 packs in 1960 and to 131.4 packs in 1965. Utah is one of twenty states that impose an eight cents per pack tax on cigarettes. Eight states have higher cigarette tax rates, twenty-one states employ lower rates, and one state does not levy the tax. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1966, the cigarette tax produced slightly more than $5 million in revenue for the state of Utah. In addition the 25 tax on other tobacco products brought in another $193,000. |