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Industry players also confirmed this impression

Tobacco and nicotine tax increase begins with the new year after wide support from Oregon voters A series of increases of taxes on cigarettes, other tobacco products and inhalant delivery products will begin Friday after Oregon voters passed Measure 108 by a wide margin in the November general election

"Cigarettes had less federal oversight than both pet food and makeup," as NPR's Fresh Air has reported, "in part because of a 2000 Supreme Court decision that ruled that the Food and Drug Administration was not allowed to regulate nicotine without congressional approval." But in 2009, Congress finally approved a bill giving the FDA authority over cigarettes and tobacco products