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Market Watch ^ | 29 July 2002 | William Spain

[PistolPaknMama]

puff puff puff!

[Fizzie]

Good point. Any deep pocket industry that has "useful idiot" activists opposing them will be targeted by the states and the attorneys.

SUVs
Fast food
Alcohol
Casinos
Cigarettes (The well is running dry on this indutry.)

[WIMom]

OOPS, forgot those pesky SUV's. I've owned them since 1976.

[CharacterCounts]

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.

With that logic, why settle for a $15.00 tax increase. Think how many lives he could save and the revenues the State would generate if the tax was $150.00 or $1,500.00.

The only thing these high taxes are going to generate is more crime.

[ijcr]

From the Cato Institute

"Federal and state excise taxes on cigarettes already generate more than $13 billion in annual revenue -- far more than the smoking-related costs paid out of public coffers. Economists who have examined the data have concluded, without exception, that publicly funded health expenditures are less than current excise tax collections. And if we consider pension and geriatric savings due to premature deaths, total social costs are less than half the prevailing tax bite. That may sound ghoulish, but it's the government, not tobacco companies, that laments the financial impact on the public treasury. In calculating that impact, both costs and savings must be considered. In a nutshell, tobacco companies and their customers have more than paid their way."

Smoking is still worthwhile--it keeps stuck up hypocritical pretentious lifestyle control freaks away from me--priceless

[SheLion]

The only thing these high taxes are going to generate is more crime.

Yea! He said it's going to "generate more money in taxes," and the same time says it will cut down on the smokers.

Go figure. They all talk out of both sides of their mouths.

[SheLion]

Smoking is still worthwhile--it keeps stuck up hypocritical pretentious lifestyle control freaks away from me--priceless

I'll smoke to that!

[Miss Marple]

I live in Indiana. A new brand has just come on the market from a tobacco cooperative in Kentucky. Because they are not party to the tobacco settlement, and because they are not a huge corporation, their cost for a carton is $21.00.

The lights are a little lighter than I prefer, but I am going to try the regulars. I am so sorry I can't remember the name (threw the package away) but the logo is a thouroughbred horse's head inside a horseshoe.

I thought this was an excellent example of innovative thinking and free enterprise by the Kentucky tobacco farmers. They probably make more money doing this than selling to the big tobacco companies.

[Hot Tabasco]

I smoke Benson and Hedges Menthol 100's and have only purchased them out of the country while in Honduras. Definitely a different, inferior quality to them......

[Great Dane]

You gotta love it. :-}

[Leisler]

Yesterday the Mass IRS walked into my friends saloon. Mass raised the tax on a pack another 75 cents. The IRS girl counted the packs and demanded payment. She got a earfull about living off the backs of the working class. She said she was just doing her job. She was informed that that was the same excuse clerks, judges and train drivers gave about driving the jews to the camps. Anyways, to buy a pack in a bar is six dollars now. It is all for your own good.....

[That Subliminal Kid]

I guess. I just think cigarettes are foul and nasty. I smoke a pipe, once each night during my favorite program. I feel the same way but I'm not addicted to it, and it smells nice, and it's not full of all those weird chemicals like cigarettes.

[That Subliminal Kid]

Whatever floats your boat, dude.

[pepsi_junkie]

Be careful, man. I have some inside info from a friend who is an attorney for a major northeastern state wedged peacefully between New York and Pennsylvania and they are about ready to start pouncing on people in a big way over this. It's already started, in fact, but apparantly the issue is a hot potato in the highest levels now. If thats happening in NJ (whoops, shouldnt have given it away) then you can bet its coming to a state near you pretty soon too.

I've always said if the government was serious about stopping drug abuse the first step they would do was legalize it and tax it. Drug dealers who arent part of the government system would be put in jail forever, no questions asked. Today they are put right back on the street, so its an improvement right there. You can ruin society as we know it, abuse children, kill people, steal people life savings and somehow the states try really hard to come up with a way to excuse and forgive you. But evade taxes and they come down like a bag of anvils on you.

[SunStar]

Best cigarette shop online is www.yesmoke.com.

$14.95 per carton of Marlboro's!

[GailA]

Swicher Sweets little cigars, lights, regular and cherry, 20 little cigars with filters to the pack, same size as cigs. About $1.05-$1.69 per pack in Tennessee.

[Max McGarrity]

I just think cigarettes are foul and nasty.

Eewwwww, a PIPE smoker!!! Ewwwwww...foul and nasty!

I smoke a pipe, once each night during my favorite program. I feel the same way but I'm not addicted to it, and it smells nice, and it's not full of all those weird chemicals like cigarettes.

Sounds as if you think your pipe is immune from the anti-smoker campaign. Wake up and smell the secondhand smoke. You're just as much in their sights as we are. By the way, I use loose tobacco without chemicals and it smells nice, too. I happen to like the smell of pipe tobacco, but whether I do or not, it's important to ME that you have the liberty to enjoy it. Just as it should be important to YOU that I have the liberty to enjoy my cigarettes. (I'm not addicted, either.)

[Great Dane]

I guess. I just think cigarettes are foul and nasty. I smoke a pipe, once each night during my favorite program. I feel the same way but I'm not addicted to it, and it smells nice, and it's not full of all those weird chemicals like cigarettes.

Heaven help us......... another smoking snob.

[SheLion]

Smoke a Pipe.

I don't think I would look to good smoking a pipe. I was never much interested in smoking pipes. Looks good on a man, though.

[SheLion]

You gotta love it. :-}

And boy, DO I love it!! The more smokers buy somewhere else and not put money into their state coffers, I am beaming!

The government shot the goose that laid the golden egg. Now they are trying to gut the goose to get MORE eggs. Sorry! It's done!

(Put a fork in the goose. It's done) LOL!