[rktman]

I know you will be shocked by this revelation. NOT! P.S. I don't frown upon it.

[JRandomFreeper]

If you grow your own, you don't pay taxes on it.

/johnny

[cripplecreek]

Duh.

I remember Jenny Granholm talking about the “Breathtaking decline in tobacco revenues” after jacking up the tax so she immediately started talking about other ways to make up for the loss like taxing food eaten by staff in restaurants.

[TomGuy]

so-called sin taxes will not produce the expected revenue, as people buy fewer packs

I have noticed that for me since January 2003:

2003 - 2 cartons
2004 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2005 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2006 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2007 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2008 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2009 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2010 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2011 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2012 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes
2013 - 0 cartons, 0 packs, 0 cigarette taxes to date.

I estimate I have around $3000 per year to spend on other things.

[a fool in paradise]

Tobacco tax hikes do not pay.
Crime does not pay.

Tobacco tax hikes == no pay
Crime == no pay

Tobacco tax hikes == Crime

[Jack Hammer]

It’s not about making money; it’s about making Chuckie Schumer feel good.

[Buckeye McFrog]

They use the tobacco tax to hook more takers into some freebie program (like “heath care for the chill’un”).

Then invariably people get tired of paying ten bucks for a pack of Marlboros and they quit smoking. So we gotta fund that program with some other tax....after all, it’s FOR THE CHILL’UN!!!!

[CSM]

Unexpectedly of course!