[governsleastgovernsbest]

"This tax increase is more about saving lives - mostly about saving young lives - than it is about revenues"

Yeah, right. In any case, the quasi-Prohibition of the high taxes was guaranteed to produce exactly the kind of black market that is now flourishing.

Isn't it ironic that in NYC, where every kind of "alternative life style" is "celebrated", there is this odd Puritanical streak when it comes to cigarettes?

[yankeedame]

Yeah, right. In any case, the quasi-Prohibition of the high taxes was guaranteed to produce exactly the kind of black market that is now flourishing.

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Amen to that! In fact the day is fast coming when state government will look back wistfully to a time when the losses in cigarette revenu was "only" $200m.