[toupsie]

Great now the blackmarket cigarette running that terrorists have been doing in the South can now be done in NYC. Thank you Mayor Bloomberg! Your financing Al Qaeda! I can't believe my only choice was to vote for this idiot.

I guess I will use Indian Reservations to buy cigarettes now. This is really going to hurt the Bodega owners.

[SheLion]

"If it were totally up to me, I would raise the cigarette tax so high the revenues from it would go to zero," said the mayor, who has said he hopes that the higher taxes will persuade smokers to quit and will prevent children from becoming smokers.

Did you read what he said? He sure is a jerk.

Thanks for the brief history. He was elected during the aftermath of 9-11, so I surely didn't know much about it.

I am in Maine, but this is WAY to close to Maine. I am afraid this will rub off.

Audrey Silk should have addressed Bloomberg as "Mayor One- Termer."

[alisasny]

I have been getting cigarettes delivered for a while now from a NY Indian Tribe. Even switched brands to the Indian brand Seneca for 15 bucks a carton. I really can not see how this can help raise revenues when people are just going to buy cigarettes elsewhere.

Funny thing about the Seneca Indians. I recently found out i have part Senaca blood. My mother was given up as a baby and her birth mom was half Indian. I don't even know if my mother knew this. She died in 1989. One of my cousins told me that if you can prove 25 % part Indian that your Indian. Have you ever heard this before? Needless to say now I know why I have high cheekbones!!!