[SierraWasp]

"And don't even get me started on what cigarettes cost these days."

That has NO relationship to inflation whatever!!! That's politics, litigation and Liberal GREED!!!

[eldoradude]

Cigarette taxes are high so that meathead's loser friends can make a lot of money making a bunch of stupid ads that lie about smoking.

I don't pay Calestinian cigarette taxes. I make my own...fresher, I pack them as tight as I want to...and I get real flavor, not some mass marketed tasteless crap in a tube.