[samtheman]

What happens if the taxes on cigarettes increase so much that people stop smoking? What will the tax then?

[goodwithagun]

I have said many times, as a non-smoker, that the U S government should build monuments to cigarette smokers and manufacturers. How many billions of their tax dollars have funded programs and initiatives?

[Bitsy]

What happens if the taxes on cigarettes increase so much that people stop smoking? What will the tax then?

Oh, don’t worry they will always find something to tax. Not that they should ever consider getting gove. spending under control or cleaning up gov. waste. Not when they can just put a tax on something the public uses - guaranteed to get the money they want. Really pisses me off, especially when we pay their freak’n salaries!!!!!

[hermgem]

What happens if taxes on cigarettes increase so much that people will stop smoking. What will they tax then?
Reply: Legalize pot, find all sorts of detrimental health hazards and tax pot.
In no time flat will cops wipe out untaxed pot smuggling and lift all those street vendors out of existence.

[capt. norm]

I'm really glad I stopped smoking 28 years ago.

It would be financially hard to maintain the habit at today's prices....will we someday have "Cigarette Loans" where a smoker could finance a carton of cigarettes?.

[Freedom4US]

That will happen to some degree, though if history is any guide, “bootlegging” will become a very large industry.

[driftdiver]

“What happens if the taxes on cigarettes increase so much that people stop smoking? What will the tax then?”

Oxygen

[CONSERVE]

I say cell phones that is what they should tax the he%% out of enough idiots have them wouldn’t need to be too large of a tax.

[kabar]

No, what we will see is something like prohibition. There will be a huge black market created for the sale of cigarettes.