Why are legal groups advocating that little cigars be included in the definition of cigarette?
• Little cigars look like cigarettes, smoke like cigarettes and are harmful like cigarettes. • The availability of cheap little cigars as a cigarette substitute may cause cigarette smokers who are inclined to quit because of a tax increase to instead smoke little cigars, reducing the fiscal and public health impact of the 2007 tax increase.9 • The cheap cost of little cigars makes the product more accessible to young people and those with little disposable income. • Increasing the tax to make the price of little cigars comparable to that of cigarettes may reduce the risk that would-be quitters will switch from cigarettes to little cigars.
