Tribes could benefit from cigarette tax increase -- or not

Tribal treasuries could be collateral beneficiaries of a state cigarette tax increase, but it’s not clear Oklahoma’s Indian nations are all that eager for such a potential windfall.

Almost no one in state or tribal government is willing to talk about it on the record, but the proposed $1.50 cigarette tax increase wafting through the Capitol smells like trouble to at least some tribes as well as state officials and most non-tribal retailers.

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