[SheLion]

They raise cigarette taxes to high heaven to “balance their budgets” and think we are all sheeple out here and continue to pay it! WRONG!

Now they are pissed that they aren’t realizing the huge wind fall!

Well, if they are going to target cigarettes over the net, they better start with EBAY first!!! Lots of items being sold over the Net………….not just cigarettes!

and

Smokers United

[SheLion]

Online cigarette sales light up

"Why in the world would I pay so much state tax when I can get them somewhere else?" he said.

[ladyinred]

OMG! Does this prove they don't really give a flying filter about our health, or stopping kids from smoking or what? It is as we all knew, about the almighty dollar! Since when are cigarettes against the law?
Maybe they should be more careful about who they let into the country, and what is put on airplanes and leave those who are buying a legal product the heck alone!
This is disgusting and a violation of civil rights!

[Jeff Chandler]

Most retail sales items sold over the internet are taxed if the business and the customer both reside in the state. I don't know if cigarettes are a special case, since they are so highly regulated.

[chance33_98]

Good Morning :)

[Cobra64]

When I was a college kid in 1968 I was working and couldn't afford smokes at 89 cents a pack. I rolled my own. I just bought a rolling machine, papers and tobacco. It appears that folks will use inititives in circumventing socialists in taxing smokers. And the revenues will continue to fall. I saw this in Montreal, Canada about 11 years ago. They taxed the snot out of the cigarette industry. A few weeks later, thousands of truckloads of cigs came from the USA and the underground black market was steaming. Canadian Revenues tanked. It is amazing how too few people understand simple ECONOMICS!

[Waco]

Marlboros been bouncing around $22 locally in Ga. recently. May be less up near Ringgold?

[glc1173@aol.com]

It's ironic, isn't it? Washington State is showing much more interest in taxing the hell out of a legal smoke sold out of state - Marlboros - than an illegal one (pot or crack) actually sold in the state by state residents.

[Bella_Bru]

We need to start electing state reps who have some balls and will be willing to force the state off of their tax habit.

I started smoking at 24. I didn't start because Joe Camel told me too. I didn't start because my mom and dad smoked (mom quit when she got pregnant with me, dad when I was 11). I didn't smoke because any of my friends smoked. I didn't start smoking because movie stars "make smoking look glamorous". I started because I always loved the smell of tobacco smoke on cold rainy air, and decided to try it myself. End of story.

[Great Dane]

I will say again, what in he.. did they expect.

[ChadGore]

WIN ONE FOR THE GIPPER

Vote on Tuesday.

Do the right thing.

[Just another Joe]

So, the internet cigs will be taxed TWICE. Once in the state they are slod in and once in the state they are shipped to.
Double dipping that chip. THAT'S what it's all about.

[lodwick]

bttt