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states are cracking down on Internet vendors, American Indian reservations and others who do not collect tobacco taxes.

YES! LIKE HOW????? You will have to go after the whole internet before you nail cigarette sales! How about EBAY? Why don't you start THERE first!

"We factored in people quitting, going out of state and going on the Internet," said Tim Connolly, a spokesman for the Department of Revenue in Massachusetts, where the tax rose from 75 cents to $1.51 per pack on July 25.

DREAMER. If that is so, why did you "factor in people going elsewhere?

The law requires vendors to report cigarette sales across state lines to the state tax authorities where the customer lives so that the state can assess tax on the tobacco.

DREAMER

states are cracking down on Internet vendors, American Indian reservations and others who do not collect tobacco taxes.

Read what ONE Chief says about this:

Read Their Lips: No Taxes/New York

MASTIC, N.Y. — Call it tax avoidance — and call it completely legal. When asked how many cartons of cigarettes he sells per month, Chief Wallace, a stocky man wearing two braids, denim shorts and flip-flops, responded, "It's none of your business."

While cigarette taxes represent just a small fraction of total revenues for most states....

SMALL????!!!!!!

"You have a downward trend in smoking ..

DREAMER

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PUFF

I don’t smoke anymore, but I have avoided becoming an anti-smoking zealot. (Nothing worse than a former smoker who now hates smokers IMNSHO.) All this while we subsidizes tobacco farmers? Give me my Liberty back.

Look, I just paid $9.00 for 1 can of Copenhagen Long Cut at the local stop and rob here in the State of Washington. I am not opposed to some level of sin taxes but this is ridiculous. I go through a can a day (OK I admit I'm a junky) but at $9.00 a day I could buy a second house. The actual cost of a can from the manufacture is about $2.00 and all the rest is taxes.

I am thinking of switching to illegal narcotics, as the costs are not so prohibitive. (Sarcasm)

SheLion, you are doing one heck of a job in collecting the tax information. Thank you.