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Don't worry, when the state coffers begin to see the decline a tax increase will be put in place to ensure that they get that money from you after all! First ruin the market with government control, then increase dependent on government, finally take from one to give to another!

And the circle continues!

I can't wait until the lawmakers go after something else for awhile and finally leave the smokers alone. Doesn't look like they want to ban it, does it! Once they bleed the smoker dry or else the smokers all wake up, then they will have to start taxing something our anti smoking lovers love. Guns......heh! Yea, put a big tax on every gun sold. I think this would be great.

I think the lawmakers are already trying to figure out how to increase taxes on fatty foods and junk food. Maybe make all obese people pay so much tax for every pound they are over weight. I bet they would drop that weight in a hurry. ~whew

Put the Fat Police on the streets. Everytime they see an overweight person, slap them with a court date. Then, when the obese person goes to court, the Judge weighs them. And for every pound they are found to be overweight, then that is how much fine they have to pay to the state. What do you think? Sound like a plan? They are given one year to lose the weight. Every year they do not, they pay the state again until they do. Sounds good to me!

Massachusetts has so taxed cigarettes that it has made "lawbreakers' of everyone I know that smokes.

We avoid the tax by buying in N.H. or from the Native Americans.I even had the ex-husband( a tolerant ex-smoker) check out the price of cigs for me at a commissary at Hanscom and they were much cheaper there.My militant non-smoking daughter said she would ship me some from Colorado where they are 1/2 the price of the ones in Mass.

Massachusetts has become an awful place but I've lived here all my life so it's too late for me to change now.

I'm seriously thinking of rolling my own,as SheLion suggests. I figure if I could learn the internet three years ago I can learn to use a gadget to make cigs.

Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Don't worry, when the state coffers begin to see the decline a tax increase will be put in place to ensure that they get that money from you after all!

That's exactly what they did in Delaware. state revenue from the casinos alone was down by something like 20 percent within the fist few months of the smoking ban.

Instead of working toward a compromise to satisfy everyone, they just doubled the cigarette tax to make up the difference.

I'm so glad I don't live their any more.