As a result of the increased taxes announced on February 13, 1998, excise taxes on cigarettes and tobacco sticks vary from $2.25 to $5.35 for a carton of cigarettes and from $1.85 to $2.93 for a carton of tobacco sticks, depending in which province the tobacco products are offered for sale.
Taxes on cigarettes and tobacco sticks used to be lower
The context state that there are increased taxes, so the taxes did used to be lower as increase means to rise. The system could likely not understand that taxes can go up and down over time?
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