Youth smoking rates in Maine decreased from 39.2% in 1995 to 14% in 2010 after a series of tobacco tax increases from 1995 to 2008, but began increasing again in 2010 for the first time in over 10 years. A graph shows cigarette smoking rates among Maine youth declining steadily from 1995 to 2009 as tobacco taxes increased by $0.37, $0.26, and $1.00 over that period.