[SheLion]

The projected loss for the city and state is $250 million a year, according to the chairman of the Tobacco Association of the State of New York.

As tax revenues drop, workers are laid off and stores fail, will our elected officials admit that the use of the cigarette tax to balance the city's budget was a classic example of political smoke and mirrors?

Just what did they expect?  That smokers would just roll over and pay it?  SHOP CHEAP! It's your Civic Duty!

[BriarBey]

hahahahahahahaha!!!! I love it!! Now whine you liberal weenies, your coffers are shrinking!! MAYBE smokers just aren't so bad after all and maybe you had it better than you knew before you started this broohaha. It's gonna blow up in their faces!! Greedy weenies!!