[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.....

[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!!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[PistolPaknMama]

puff puff puff!

[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.

[Great Dane]

You gotta love it. :-}

[Great Dane]

So far, 27 restaurants and bars has closed in Ottawa, as if that isn't bad enough, the boys & girls club are closing buildings, due to lack of money they used to recieve from the legions and bingo halls............ so it's for the children, huh. :-}

[Marianne]

"A spokesman for Philip Morris said it discourages online sales of its products, mostly because of age-verification questions. The company has asked several online retailers to remove its products for that reason, he said, and some, though by no means all, have done it."
Last week when I bought cigarettes at the upstate Seneca Reservation I was surprised to see signs posted saying, "Limit: 2 cartons of Marlboros". No limit on any other brands. When I asked the clerk, "why", she told me that Philip Morris ordered it and the order was being strictly enforced due to black market reselling.