$13.50 at WalMart.
make cigs taste like crap ... 
2-What else are you doing to defeat the government's efforts to extort smokers?
3-What are you going to do when government enforces interstate sales tax?
4-How do you feel about the overwhelming percentage of smokers who continue to pay the tax increases?
1)Do you have this much glee when you contemplate the "sin taxes" soon to be imposed on fast food?
2)Are you going to be equally delighted when you can no longer use your barbecue grill or fireplace?
3)You already have given up your SUV, haven't you?
4)You won't mind giving up all pesticides, will you? What's a few roaches and rats? You can always put the legs of the baby's crib in pots of water, and hope that the rats are not the ones that can swim.
5)You probably already wonder why mammograms and colonoscopies are not mandatory. Where are those dratted health police when you need them anyway?
A big effect! And more smokers are finding out every day that buying from the net, the Reservations, or rolling their own is the way to go now.
2-What else are you doing to defeat the government's efforts to extort smokers?
By emailing everyone I can! By running my Forces Maine Website, and by rolling our own for over a year now. Not paying all those taxes into the state coffers tickles me pink.
3-What are you going to do when government enforces interstate sales tax?
Might take 10 years. They can’t just tax tobacco over the Net without taxing everything being sold EVERYWHERE on the net.
4-How do you feel about the overwhelming percentage of smokers who continue to pay the tax increases?
I think they are nuts. If they can truly afford it, great! But we found a much better way, and those tax dollars are just as good in OUR pocket as the state coffers!
Until many more start trying to go around the system in SOME manner there will not be much effect,
2-What else are you doing to defeat the government's efforts to extort smokers?
Putting out a tobacco related newsletter to my local tobacco shops letting smokers know just how bad it is getting EVERYWHERE, not just in the USA.
3-What are you going to do when government enforces interstate sales tax?
The only thing I buy over the internet is the tubes for my stuff your owns. I could get tubes locally but not the ones I like. If they start taxing internet sales they will have to tax ALL internet sales, not just tobacco related items. Just wait for the screams then.
4-How do you feel about the overwhelming percentage of smokers who continue to pay the tax increases?
They are either stupid or they haven't been given information to let them NOT pay the tax.
This same solution would work for Coca Cola and McDonald's as well. If California imposes "fat taxes" on those industries, they should just shut down all the McDonalds statewide- putting thousands out of work until the state scrapped their plan.
Actually, just the threat of doing this should be enough.
On a side note, back when it looked like Gore might become President, I had thought of a similar tack for corporations to use if the Kyoto Protocol was enacted and they were working with "Carbon Allotments and Credits". The company would go full steam ahead, and in May or July when they used up their allotment of carbon- they'd simply lay the work force off, shut the doors and wait till the new year began so they could get a brand new allotment (instead of "buying carbon" from other nations).
Corporations run this country anyway- they need to start acting like it- they have the power to run those charlatans out of office. If the commies in gov't enact harsh taxes, the corporations should just say "hell no- we'll just shut down if our product bothers you so much".
That could happen.
Then people will begin buying from overseas (there are Websites currently running which will ship from one of the Slovak countries.)
It will be a lot harder for the Feds to enforce tax regs on THOSE transactions.
Of course, there's always the Mafia--and they will be a much larger player than they are currently.
States will have a very hard time squeezing smokers much harder than they already do...
$13.50 at WalMart.
make cigs taste like crap ...
That doesn't take a brain surgeon.
2- So far stuffing my own.
3- Think seriously about growing my own.
4- People paying full price when there are alternatives, are suckers.
Moreover, the new rules are a violation of private property rights for individuals and business owners. It's not right that a non-smoker can dictate to a restautant or bar owner how to run his or her business.
If a non-smoker doesn't want to go into a smoke filled bar, then don't. No one is forcing them to. Yet, somehow many non-smokers believe they should be able to force the bar's patrons to not smoke. This is insane! Whose business is it? Who pays the taxes, the utilities, the maintenance, and obtains the license to do business? Certainly not the anti-smoking nazis. They are nothing but a bunch of control freaks drunk on power, their adgenda, and their own self-importance.
Not enough.
2-What else are you doing to defeat the government's efforts to extort smokers?
Everything I can. Including gathering signatures on petitions, writing lawmakers and educating the public and the media to the great scam this War on Smokers has become; trying to get smokers registered to vote and make them aware of those who trample their freedoms who need to be run out of town naked.
3-What are you going to do when government enforces interstate sales tax?
Grow and make my own, and encourage everyone I know to do the same.
4-How do you feel about the overwhelming percentage of smokers who continue to pay the tax increases?
Most of them are simply uneducated about the issue, and feel powerless to do anything else. The anti-smoker jihad has a thirty-year head start on us and a hell of a lot more money, but I'll never give up. They'll have to take my cigarettes from my cold, dead hands just like my weapons.