The first thing Obama did when he got in office was jack tobacco taxes.
Loose leaf tobacco for cigarettes went form $14 LB to $75 lb.
Companies changed the cut to classify it as a pipe tobacco which got it down to $30 lb.
And where does the tax money go?
Smokers healthcare?
NO! It goes to the SCHIP.
State Children’s healthcare.
Let the people with children’s pay for the children’s healthcare.
Here in Michigan that ding bat from canada that michigan put into the governors mansion slapped a 25 dollar a pound for loose tobacco...I ate all the food and my freezer and put about 30-35 pounds in the freezer before the tax kicked in.. Figured I'd quite in a few years when the tobacco was gone, but then my shop has the pipe tobacco that I use now and its less per pound than it was before the democrats raised the 25 dollar tax on ciggie tobacco. The shop also has a large walk in humidor for their cigars and I have gotten some beautiful wood cigar boxes from them...They usually give them to me free, but some they charge 1or 2 dollar per empty box. Some of those boxes are really beautiful.