Posted on 04/20/2017 5:07:21 AM PDT by kevcol
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that cigarette prices in the city would go up $2.50 to $13 which, de Blasio bragged, would be "the highest price in the country."
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Council Member Fernando Cabrera, who introduced the bill to create the licensing requirement for e-cigarette retailers, described the proposal as "a major step to limit the use of e-cigarettes, which are dangerous nicotine delivery systems that can lead to nicotine and potentially drug addiction."
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and Cheapest in VA.
And he doesn’t mention all the empty cigarette packs without a NYC tax stamp that NYC sanitation workers are finding at the NYC garbage dumps.
Great smuggling jobs big $$$$, they are bought in VA and trucked to NYC.
Which, of course, is why black guys are getting killed by cops for selling loosies...
They’re about $7.50/pack in northeast PA. That’s over $200/month people are burning merrily.
At $13 a pack, that is $4,725 per year for a pack a day smoker. A part time job just to fund smoking. Glad I never started that habit.
They would ALWAYS leave with their "holsters loaded".
How does conservatism, finally, win, throughout all of the worlds’ cities? Conservatism in cities that’s put into practice ends all of this pro-leftist garbage on all issues.
$13.00 US a pack?
Are you serious? Someone got killed for selling loose cigarettes?
Pay it cause we will choke a muthasmoker #NYPD
Dam bruh, where you been at?
That guy in NYC - I forget his name and forget which borough. A big fat guy who was wrestled to the ground for resisting arrest. He was selling loosies.
In central VA you can by a pack for $5.00. A smart runner could make $7.00/pk.
7.50!!!!!!!!!!!
I live in Staten Island...
And, in a sane world, BLM would be mobbing De Blahblahblah about Eric Garner.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
Using the tele/microscope of history I can see once again the guidance of the ‘mob’. For them there is “YUGE’ money to be made in circumventing vice laws. There will always be people who want their booze, (Prohibition), and Cigarettes, drugs of all sorts.
The government makes their money off of taxes paid by the law-abiding. The mob makes it’s money off of those who want to ‘screw’ the government out of taxes. In the end it is the consumer of the vices of their choice who are the real losers.
Grow your own. If it’s legal to sell, then it’s legal to grow. The selling of bulk tobacco used to be controlled by tobacco base size, but they don’t do that any more.
Buy here:
http://sustainableseedco.com/tobacco-seeds/tobacco-seed-collections/tobacco-seed-collection.html
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