In the years following an eight-cent increase in the federal tax on a pack of cigarettes, sales of cigarettes fell ten percent.
在联邦政府对每包香烟增加8美分的税收后的几年里,香烟的销量下降了10%。
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It had come early, when she was ten, and her sisters had braided her hair in cornrows, and her mother had given her napkins to pack in the dirt when she was done.