烟草在线据密歇根广播公司报道编译　　密歇根州一名立法议员说，假冒烟草产品和走私使得密歇根州在过去5年里损失了10亿美元。州参议院如今在考虑一项将要求实行电子税票和实施更强有力的烟草立法的法案。

　　密歇根州参议员Roger Kahn说，他提出的法案不仅仅是对付非法活动的。

　　他提出的法案还要求提供所谓“手卷烟”卷烟机供顾客使用的小烟店为每包卷烟交付2美元的州烟税。

　　一些烟店业主反对这项法案，因为这项法案将把他们列为卷烟制造商。

　　Kahn说，这正是烟草商店的实际身份。

　　Kahn说：“他们为散装烟草支付了一些费用，然后他们让人转动卷烟机上的曲柄，或者把卷烟机插入墙里，然后他们制造出一箱卷烟。他们送出门外的每箱卷烟使得密歇根州损失20美元。”

　　Kahn还说，由于走私与造假执法力度不足，密歇根州扣留了烟草和解款。

　　在一项偿还与吸烟有关的医疗费用集体诉讼中，密歇根州从烟草业获得了补偿。

Bill tackles tobacco smuggling, counterfeiting, roll-your-own shops

Michigan Radio
Feb 12, 2012

　　A Michigan lawmaker says counterfeit tobacco products and smuggling have cost the state up to $1 billion over the past five years. The state Senate is now considering a bill that would require a digital tax stamp and stronger tobacco enforcement.

　　State Sen. Roger Kahn says his bill tackles more than illegal activity.

　　It would also require small tobacco shops that provide so-called "roll-your-own" cigarette machines for customers' use to pay a state tax of $2 per pack.

　　Some tobacco shop owners oppose the bill because it would label them as cigarette manufacturers.

　　Kahn says that's exactly what they are.

　　"They pay some money in bulk tobacco, and then they have people who turn the crank on the machine, or they plug it into the wall, and they generate a carton of cigarettes," Kahn says. "And every carton that they send out the door costs the state of Michigan $20."

　　Kahn also says tobacco settlement money is being withheld from the state because of inadequate smuggling and counterfeit enforcement.

　　Michigan received compensation from the tobacco industry in a class-action lawsuit to reimburse smoking-related Medicaid costs.