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To: RHINO369
Now if they are going to ban cigarettes

Though of course you know that'll never happen. Cigarette companies only make about 15 to 25 cents a pack... but states make a buck to a buck fifty or more per pack. They can't afford to ban them. They don't even really want usage to go down. They'd panic.

27 posted on 05/09/2006 10:13:43 PM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1100 knives and counting!)
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To: Ramius
Though of course you know that'll never happen. Cigarette companies only make about 15 to 25 cents a pack... but states make a buck to a buck fifty or more per pack. They can't afford to ban them. They don't even really want usage to go down. They'd panic.

$2 dollars tax on one pack in Maine!!!!

92 posted on 05/10/2006 12:17:30 AM PDT by SheLion
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try $2.40 in taxes per pack here in NJ...and Corzine wants to raise it another 35 cents!


103 posted on 05/10/2006 1:38:04 AM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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