[SheLion]

[SheLion]

[Cagey]

I was thinking of you this morning, SheLion.

On this morning's news there was a story which claimed cigarette sales in the United States is the lowest it's been since 1951. That's when I recalled some of your postings about people who "roll their own" and I wondered just how many people are doing that now and if that had something to do with these numbers.

I did meet some people from German not that long ago and in that group of five, four were making their own cigarettes.

[carlr]

It is my opinion that this has less to do with smoking and more to do with establishing a precedent for pursuing "lost" sales tax revenue from out of state purchases of any kind.

Smokers are an easy starting point as they have been branded as evil and the feeling is the general public will not have sympathy.

For the record,it was three years ago yesterday that I quit smoking.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

The tobacco companies really need to strike back. One company needs to take the bull by the horns and end distribution in the city of New York or even the State of New York. I know it would be a great loss of sales to that company. If other manufacturers could be persuaded to follow, the money drain on the state would make them howl and lay bare the state's reliance on dirty cigarettes.

The would have to raise taxes on nonsmokers to makeup for the loss from tobacco.

[Graybeard58]

unfairly cheated of tax revenues.

Nope, fairly cheated.

[from occupied ga]

the state and city are unfairly cheated of tax revenues.

This is about as "unfair" as your not telling a mugger who just stole your wallet that you have another couple of hundred hidden in your shoe. One could say that the mugger was unfairly cheated of his revenue too.

[sergeantdave]

A judge can ban the sale of a legal product?

Did he find that in the Chinese communist constitution or the Nazi Germany laws?