New Yorkers will have to shell out almost $6 for a pack of cigarettes as of Wednesday. But if New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way, those in the Big Apple will pay $1.50 more per pack on top of the new rate. "Raising revenues for the state and the city is important now, but because of the increase in the price of cigarettes there will (also) be a reduction in smoking that will save tens of thousands of lives," Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, a Democrat from New York City and chairman of the assembly health committee, told United...