[Drango]

THANK YOU California voters.

As free people, we can freely march into voting booths, and freely vote to reduce, regulate, restrict or tax tobacco.

[Newbomb Turk]

Californians, Just send all your money to the government. You’re screwed.

[cgbg]

Many cigar smokers have long since abandoned the brick and mortar stores and bought smokes on-line.

These state taxes have contributed to the creation of on-line mega-stores like Cigars International, Holts, Cigar.com, Cigarpage, Cigarplace, Famous, Bestcigarprices and others.

They thank California for the new business.

Interesting fact—most of these mega-stores are located in PA—because PA has no taxes on cigar sales.

[gaijin]

[Vaquero]

CIGARS!!

[I want the USA back]

They need the money to pay for the illegals, the muzzies, the crime, the sex-”change” operations, and all the other things they do that they shouldn’t do with our money.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Some welcome their totalitarian overlords. I for one do not.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Now the mexicans will switch from smuggling drugs to smuggling cigarettes.

[luvbach1]

I don’t smoke but voted against the onerous increase of tobacco taxes out of concern for the cigarette-addicted 25% of the population, largely lower-income people, who will still buy cigarettes with the higheer tax.

[Bob]

When all is said and done, that $9.50 cigar will cost $16.82 with the new tax and sales tax, a total increase of $3.85.

An increase of $3.85??? Was that calculation done with common core math?

By the math that I learned in the last century, a $9.50 cigar being sold for $16.82 results in a $7.32 increase rather than a $3.85 increase.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I buy cigars from outside the country and don’t pay any US taxes on them.

[Fido969]

Bill Clinton hardest hit.

[xp38]

Question. Are Cuban cigars showing up in the US for sale these days?

[nikos1121]

Haha!!!!! Idiots running an idiot state...

[Thibodeaux]

Attn California types: Cigarettes for sale, Virginia or NC tax paid

[Mastador1]

Such insanity, these taxes are always sold as a way to fund anti smoking programs to kids and to cover all those extra health care costs caused by smokers(BOLSHEVIK!) and then they bust their humps to reduce the number of smokers.

Oh wait now there aren't enough smokers to keep the entitlement programs funded, what shall we do, cut back the programs because they are working and smokers are reduced? Hell no, less smokers mean we have to increase the taxes because an entitlement can never ever be removed.