New Taxes Push Cigarette Prices Over $8 A Pack In New York

All Headline News ^ | June 3, 2008 | Vittorio Hernandez

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Coming to your liberal-run state any day now!

Can you all see NOW that this is a money-maker for state government? It has NOTHING to do with health, and everything to do with revenue.

If tobacco is so BAD, then BAN it! BAN it! I dare ya!

(And I have never smoked in my life.)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

A “Perfect Example” Ping!

[patton]

Ok, am I still allowed to take my cigs to my house in NY, or is that smuggling, or something?

[CondorFlight]

Decades ago it was said that if you wanted people to cut down on smoking, just increase the price.

People could then afford to smoke one or two cigarettes a day, but not a whole pack.

As far as health goes, that would be “mission accomplished”.

Instead of letting the market forces work, we tried “government persuasion”, and spent billions.

[bonehead4freedom]

Wow cancer sticks are going to rake in millions for organized crime !These idiots never learn that some people will want to smoke and if the legal price is through the roof the boyz in da hood will be happy to sell some cheap squares along with some rock or weed.We are going to make criminals out of people who smoke ,that will make things better!By the way I don't smoke but if people want to it's not my business.

[Sig Sauer P220]

The surrounding states should benefit handsomely.

[NoGrayZone]

Yesterday, my butts were $5.15....today they were $6.40!!! I HATE NY!!!

I ranted a tad. My gal at the pharmacy, where I purchase my butts said “ I told you they were going up”! I said “ I thought it was the usual 5 or 10 cents”!!!

Did I tell you I hated NY???

[NoGrayZone]

"Ok, am I still allowed to take my cigs to my house in NY, or is that smuggling, or something?

Not yet....

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Iowa's doing it. Within a month of the new Dem gov taking office with a new Dem legislature, a dollar a pack tax increase became law.

The anti-smoking nazis had been pushing it for years, but a R Gov and R Senate stopped it every time. But with the D's, they found the perfect opportunity.

[bert]

Need Cigs??

They are cheap in Virginia

[The Ghost of Rudy McRomney]

Dr. Scott Sherman, a stop smoking expert, told Newsday, “The two biggest factors that have made a difference in New York City is the tax and the smoking ban, basically making it more difficult to smoke.”

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Ummm....I thought the smoker ban and the tax hikes were for ‘the public health’ and to treat people w/’smoking-related illnesses’, respectively. They all denied it was social engineering. Simply more lies.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

You can expect smoking in your own domicile to be illegal pretty danged quick now.

It's for the children you know!

That's the thin edge of the wedge.

They'll parley that into no smoking in any indoor space.

[RoadKingSE]

Have the geniuses in these taxaholic States figured out at what price people will travel to North Carolina to purchase a 6 months supply of smokes?

A young entrepreneur from New Joisey was stopped by the Murlin State Po Lease on I-95 in Maryland over the Memorial Weekend with 25,000 packs of cigarettes in his van. It appears that most of his customers were Obama constituents since half his freight was Kools. For every one they catch how many hundreds skate?

[TYVets]

The surrounding states should benefit handsomely.

and New York's total tax revenue on cigarettes will go down not up.

[Ken H]

Ok, am I still allowed to take my cigs to my house in NY, or is that smuggling, or something?

As long as you limit it to one carton. Otherwise, they could nab you for intent to distribute.

(Sarcasm, as of now. It may not be such in a a couple of years!)

[tsmith130]

I’ll say. I was in Virgina 2 weeks ago and a carton was $27.99!

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Here in Iowa, it’s $40. was $25 a year ago

[NoGrayZone]

Why yes...yes I do. But they’ve been cracking down on the “mail order cigs”. I’m scared, lol.

[rabscuttle385]

They are cheap in Virginia

Don't worry. After we become a solidly blue state, that will get fixed. /sarc

[megatherium]

Except the price of gas will make up the difference.