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(Vanity)Cigarette price question
Store | 4/11/2007 | Me

Posted on 04/11/2008 8:33:41 PM PDT by DGHoodini

I was just reading an article that referenced "sin taxes" cigarettes being one...Well, Many years ago, I used to smoke..and the last time I bought a pack of cigarettes, they cost $1.50 a pack. I was wondering if anyone knew offhand, what they are currently going for?


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To: djf

Taxes ... Chicago’s oxygen .. they’re unbelievable.
And no matter what they sell, bring in, increase
the taxes on every possible thing they can, there’ll
never be enough $$ for this huge bureaucratic machine.

They’re now going to sell the naming rights to Chicago
landmarks, roads, attractions and municipal properties!
You’ve never seen anything like this place.


41 posted on 04/11/2008 9:54:01 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: processing please hold

Cigarette coupons are becoming a thing of the past. Tabacco companies are not handing them out anymore because they are traceable by state gov’s.

I think the tabacco companies are required to put names on them now and report who is getting them and using them.


42 posted on 04/11/2008 10:00:25 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: TheLion; DGHoodini
I'm in Virginia and can buy a carton of Marlboro's, Newports and Camels for just under $30.00.

Other brands, premiums or off brands, may be lower or a bit higher.

43 posted on 04/11/2008 10:01:28 PM PDT by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: Graybeard58

Dang, you guys have the ammo ID thing too, don’t you?
I’ve found a new “cheap” brand that I can stand called, get this, “Tough Guy”! They are made in Armenia and I get them for under $14 a carton at Dirt Cheap. They are pretty crappy but at least they aren’t flavored which a lot of the discount brands are, to cover up the fact that they are made with floor sweepings, I guess..lol.
The next time I visit my buddy in Collinsville I’ll watch for that sign I saw. Maybe I can get a pic, it would be fun to have, for the record.


44 posted on 04/11/2008 10:01:35 PM PDT by Uriah_lost (This space reserved for a decent candidate,,,lemme know when we get one.)
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To: processing please hold

more...

If your name is not on the cig coupons then they have a customer ID number on them that matches up with your name and mailing address.


45 posted on 04/11/2008 10:03:05 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: DieHard the Hunter
you never can tell with Helen, except that she’s always in favor of more control and more tax.

And less military. At least NZ military.

46 posted on 04/11/2008 10:21:48 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

> And less military. At least NZ military.

Sadly true.


47 posted on 04/11/2008 10:22:33 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Just out of curiosity, mate. What time is it there now? Something like 1730? (5:30 PM?)


48 posted on 04/11/2008 10:27:22 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

> Just out of curiosity, mate. What time is it there now? Something like 1730? (5:30 PM?)

Something precisely like 17h30, Saturday afternoon. Well done!


49 posted on 04/11/2008 10:28:14 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
Well done!

Thank you, sir!

Keep the faith. The right-minded will govern your land again.

50 posted on 04/11/2008 10:30:19 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: STARWISE

> They’re now going to sell the naming rights to Chicago landmarks, roads, attractions and municipal properties! You’ve never seen anything like this place.

This is Old Hat in New Zealand. Believe it or not, there plenty more taxation delights for you in Chicago, if Dayley and your city fathers are following the NZ playbook...

Geez, the Chicago city hall are babes-in-arms when it comes to institutionalized corruption on a massive governmental scale. Prediction: “Da Mare” is going to take a field trip to Wellington, and come back all bright eyed with new ideas of ways to scam you lot with more taxes. Helen is going to become his new best buddy. And you thought wrought-iron fences on everything was excessive...


51 posted on 04/11/2008 10:44:25 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DGHoodini

Here in the midwest, they are around $4 a pack. Haven’t seen $1.50 since the mid 90s.


52 posted on 04/11/2008 10:57:23 PM PDT by mysterio
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A pack of 16 Sampoerna Mild (my choice for lung cancer) is approximately $1.10 in Jakarta.

Although I don't smoke Marlboro, I believe they're about $1.20 for a pack of 20.

Which makes Indonesia, Smokers' Paradise :-)

53 posted on 04/11/2008 11:09:13 PM PDT by Jakarta ex-pat
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To: Uriah_lost

If you visit Illinois, don’t bring your concealed gun, it’s a felony in Illinois.


54 posted on 04/12/2008 7:09:55 AM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: DGHoodini

Stuff my own cigarette tubes. Total cost = $0.69 pack.


55 posted on 04/12/2008 11:41:33 AM PDT by Rudder (Klinton-Kool-Aid FReepers prefer spectacle over victory.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Surely you Kiwis didn’t expect anything different from Clark when you elected her, did you? Woman’s been a stone socialist all her life, give cards and spades to idiots such as Osamabama.


56 posted on 04/12/2008 12:41:31 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: SAJ

> Surely you Kiwis didn’t expect anything different from Clark when you elected her, did you? Woman’s been a stone socialist all her life, give cards and spades to idiots such as Osamabama.

(sigh) She was always ever going to be a train-wreck. The trick will now be to get rid of her — this has been a trick since the last two elections. With MMP (our voting methodology) the Government is determined by who can cobble together the largest coalition. It is possible to clobber Helen at the polls and still lose — if the sum of all her partners is greater than the sum of all her opponents. (it is similar to Germany’s political system).

On paper right now, it will be a very nearly run thing.


57 posted on 04/12/2008 1:38:58 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
G-d love you, m'friend. Don't know your electoral system, and wouldn't criticise for a moment (ours is as goofy as you like, of course).

I do hope you good folks find some way of putting Clark out to grass, or better still, on some atoll somewhere.

FReegards!

58 posted on 04/12/2008 11:34:56 PM PDT by SAJ
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To: lawnguy

Never smoked in my life but used smokeless tobacco for about 37 years now (and still have all my teeth). Used to pay 25 cents a can for Skoal when I started, now I pay about $1.19 a can for Longhorn wintergreen. Alot of people say, “Ooh gross!” I don’t even spit so most people don’t know I dip. 2 cans a week pretty much lasts me. Plus I can eat or drink anything without taking it out of my mouth. (must have a cast iron stomach). And you’re right, tried to quit once and found it impossible.


59 posted on 04/13/2008 12:24:39 AM PDT by Mustng959
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To: DGHoodini
$13.99 a carton in Florida


60 posted on 04/13/2008 4:08:49 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland (4-hshootingsports.org)
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