If all the smokers (me included) would just not buy any tobacco for a solid week (stock up before hand) that would show the tax and spend crowd how much money they would lose if we all quit. Maybe get them to stop raising the taxes on smokes! Tax those healthy folks who will live forever!
The only way I'll quit smoking is when they pat me in the face with a shovel...
That's how I feel. My cigarettes and my coffee. How bad can it be!
Don't stock up, they still get the taxes......grow your own!!!!
Or at least buy loose tobacco and roll/stuff your own.....loose tobacco is taxed differently than cigarettes.
Also - if you do buy your cigarettes from the corner store, stop buying from the major manufacturers. The little independent companies make a comparable (in many cases better) product and are not paying in to the smoker extortion known as the MSA.