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by ajmurmann 537 days ago
The tax wouldn't need in the nicotine though but on the devices since that's what we are disposing. How high would the tax need to be to make up for the cost of disposal? Would it be high enough to make smuggling attractive? AFAIK products in Germany (and the EU?) already have a recycling tax built-in for things like plastic packaging and it seems to work. Would this tax need to be that much higher to the point that smuggling is encouraged?