To: Cincinatus' Wife
… distributed more than 17 million black-market cigarettes …
How many people buy or sell individual cigarettes? I doubt these black marketers did. But of course, 17,000,000 cigarettes sounds a lot bigger than 85,000 cartons.
13 posted on
04/02/2011 5:03:35 AM PDT by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: R. Scott
Or for comparison 1 truck load.
20 posted on
04/02/2011 7:41:21 AM PDT by
justrepublican
(Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
To: R. Scott
How many people buy or sell individual cigarettes? I doubt these black marketers did. But of course, 17,000,000 cigarettes sounds a lot bigger than 85,000 cartons. They state it this way because cigarettes are actually taxed per cigarette as opposed to per pack or per carton.
That started who knows how long ago, back when different packs contained different numbers of cigarettes.
23 posted on
04/02/2011 7:52:09 AM PDT by
Gabz
(Democrats for Voldemort.)
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