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With over 480,000 deaths each year, smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States

In 2009, the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act increased the federal tax rate on cigarettes from 39 cents per pack to 100.66 cents per pack

But by 2014, ATF had dropped to 148th out of 315 agencies and departments overall and ranked 279th out of 314 agencies for effective leadership of senior leaders. Director Jones himself noted the poor morale among the rank and file when he took over as acting director, describing ATF at that time as an agency in distress and saying that [p]oor morale undermined the efforts of the overwhelming majority of ATF. Insufficient resources and burdensome restrictions ATFs primary responsibility is enforcing the nations gun lawsa responsibility that puts the agency at the center of a political issue that has often been described as the third rail of American politics