Pricier cigarettes a windfall for crooks

The Star Ledger ^ | 25 November 2002 | TOM HAYDON AND WAYNE WOOLLEY

[SheLion]

Robberies are rising after state tax hikes For the enterprising thief, cigarettes are as good as cash.

On the heels of the summer's major cigarette-tax hikes in New Jersey and New York City, law enforcement officials on both sides of the Hudson River are coping with a rash of smash-and-grab burglaries and robberies of stores that sell cigarettes.

[SheLion]

[SheLion]

[Lewite]

Face it most dopers are losers, and will go to any means for their next nico fix.

[BlackbirdSST]

Face it most dopers are losers, and will go to any means for their next nico fix.I don't know which article you read, but this one relates to thievery of cig's, and the lining of politician caufer's with pork monies at the expense of smokers, which is still legal BTW. Try and offer some thought to the fact that every time they, you and other's like you evidently, try and criminilize something people do, a black market and thuggery ensue. It's one of those human nature thing's! Sooner or later they'll be coming after a vice of your's and you'll be whining. Don't think you have any vice's? Anything you do in your daily life, is easily changed with the stroke of a pen, to a vice. Blackbird.

[SheLion]

Face it most dopers are losers, and will go to any means for their next nico fix.

There's no need for a remark like that! What are you......a Gore Lap Dog? That was really uncalled for........

[SheLion]

Face it most dopers are losers, and will go to any means for their next nico fix.

That remark was uncalled for. I can't believe the nerve of these people, and they call themselves Republicans! Disgusting! I bet he splits his ticket too, don't you??

[Great Dane]

We told them so, why is it these idiots can learn.

[Great Dane]

#3...... Is that really the best you can do...... yawn.

[garbanzo]

If there's one thing you learn from studying history, it's that nobody ever learns anything.

[Dataman]

This is from the same hypocritical crowd that tells us that Prohibition failed and only allowed organized crime to prosper. Right. Prohibition doesn't work so we are going to prohibit guns, cigarettes, red meat, SUVs, furs, free speech and Christianity. We are not going to prohibit the spread of AIDS, voter fraud, homosexual propaganda, illegal drugs, contraceptive abortions, and a host of other unhealthy/stupid/corrupt practices and teachings.

[bassmaner]

Face it most dopers are losers, and will go to any means for their next nico fix.

TROLL ALERT!

[JoeSixPack1]

Go polish your boots.

[SheLion]

Lewite is something else. Who care if he likes smokers or not. He certainly doesn't have to be AROUND us! But he just HAD TO GET HIS DIG IN. (pervert)

[SheLion]

What would the price of cigarettes be then?

Why would a flat tax be bad for cigarette sales? I'm not real clear on that. And how can the lawmakers tax cigarettes any higher then they are??!

[Lewite]

Gore raises tobacco and smokes stoggies.

[Lewite]

Your fags may be legal, but they are still a potent drug delivery system!!!!

[SheLion]

Gore raises tobacco and smokes stoggies.

[Lewite]

No dig intended, so sorry the truth hurts so bad. I think a smoker would be a more likely form of perversion. Why are they so weak to have to spend so much or illegally obtain their nico fix?

[SheLion]

Your fags may be legal, but they are still a potent drug delivery system!!!!

YOUR A$$! If cigarettes were a drug, why are they LEGAL? HELLO!