Online cigarette sales light up

Market Watch ^ | 29 July 2002 | William Spain

[SheLion]

[SheLion]

Buying on the Web is looking better and better.

[alisasny]

I pay 15 bucks a carton for the Seneca brand. Never been happier : ))

[Hot Tabasco]

Got to love my wonderfull state of Michigan, they just upped the state tax by $.50 per pack thinking they would increase their tax revenues. LOL! Whatever revenues they were receiving from me just went to the Indian reservations. MORONS!!!

FWIW, if it gets worse, I'm turning to the black market......

They finally drew the line and crossed it.....

[SheLion]

I pay 15 bucks a carton for the Seneca brand. Never been happier : ))

That's great! I roll my own and get a carton for under $8.00

Where there is a will there is a way!

[SheLion]

They finally drew the line and crossed it.....

The states sure did cross the line. They want to balance their budgets on the backs of the smokers, yet they say they want Smoke Free Everything! They sure aren't getting both!

Tickles me to no end the more people finally catch up and buy their cigarettes somewhere else or roll their own!

[zandtar]

I'm curious if anyone has bought the online smokes which advertise American brand names (Marlboro, etc..) but are 'made' somewhere else? I remember during a trip in the Ukraine and Turkey a few years back the European versions of these were _not_ up to snuff with the American made ones. The tobacco was much more loosely packed and tasted different as well. Tapping down a 100 would sometimes result in the tobacco settling down almost a full inch.

[tbg681]

Just bought 2 cartons of Marlboro Lights for $29.90 TOTAL (from Switzerland).

It took about 12 days for the smokes to get here. They came in a brown, nonmarked envelope (just like porno tapes - or so I've been told).

Screw Hillary Clinton, screw Bill Clinton, screw Jim McGreevey, screw Michael Bloomberg -- and screw every other busybody, anti-smoking zealot.

They all can go balance their crummy, socialist, welfare state budgets on someone else's back!!

[Bella_Bru]

I have tried the light blue pack of camels, which are called "export quality". They weren't bad at all. I am not sure if this is the same thing, however.

[Centurion2000]

I'll laugh at even the guy paying 3.50 a pack thinking he is getting a deal. I pay 1.701 a pack at cheaper cigarettes in my town.

[lizma]

I've bought Marlboros in Germany. The only difference I noticed is that they were half the price.

[That Subliminal Kid]

what's funny is people who are enslaved by a corporation, chained by addiction to a chemical that controls them. Or is it sad and pathetic? I'm not really sure. I'm glad I'm not a corporate slave.

[SheLion]

Michael Bloomberg

BLOOMBERG? DID YOU MENTION BLOOMBERG??!!

Double standard, eh?

[SheLion]

Or is it sad and pathetic?

Smoker's Creed
I smoke because I like to smoke.
I smoke because I want to smoke.
Smoking pleases me.
My life is better because I smoke.
I accept responsibility for all of my actions.
I want the freedom to choose to smoke.
I can choose how to make myself happy.
I own myself.
Smoking is my choice.

[WIMom]

I just ordered online a week ago, and got my first 2 cartons today, expecting 3 more. $15 dollars per carton. Cartons in WI are hovering around $40.

[Fizzie]

The law was one of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's pet projects; he signed it on June 30 with much fanfare, claiming that it will both save lives and generate $111 million in additional revenues next year. And Bloomberg's supposed to be a financial Whiz? Does that $111 million "additional revenue" reflect the decline in sales as a result of the confiscatory tax?

Zcat's comment: The states sure did cross the line. They want to balance their budgets on the backs of the smokers, yet they say they want Smoke Free Everything! They sure aren't getting both! Right on the money.

Problem is: These politicians continue to fund their addictive habit of spending via taxing people's addictive behavior. As people modify their behavior as a result of the taxation, our tax-money addicts will need to go on a methadone program. Or not. You already see it as attorneys and states greedily eyeball the casino and fast food industries.

[WIMom]

I smoke the same. I've had European, Mexican and South American Marlboro Lights. I didn't notice a difference, except cost. (Except for the brown filters, that's wierd, but same taste)

[Bahbah]

You might try yessmokes.com. I think they are in Switzerland. I am very satisfied with quality and delivery (6 days).

[WIMom]

Don't forget alcohol. That's a huge target.