Federal tax on each cigar could rise from 5 cents to $10

sptimes.com — Eric Newman punches the numbers on his calculator and gapes at the results one more time.It's no mathematical error: The federal government has proposed raising taxes on premium cigars, the kind Newman's family has been rolling for decades in Ybor City, by as much as 20,000 percent. Jul 17, 2007 View in Crawl 4