NYC $1.50 tax

[Pat1075]

Top sucks but stockebyes makes some great cigarettes tobacco alongs with some german companys that you can get at that cigar shops. I smoke a german blend called Fine cut #4 that I get at work. I used to spend about $50 a week on cigarettes now I spend about $7 for 1.5oz. of tobacco and papers and the tobacco is cleaner and way tastier.
But to the original taxation point I'm noticing the tobacco tax is starting to bear some startling resemblences towards the tea tax. in the 1700's

[papajohn67]

Frankly I'm more than a little sick of this NANNY STATE s**t!!

Belly up to the buffet, belly up to the bar, belly up to the green felt tables....or choose to have a smoke. Of the four the latter seems to be #1 on our great leaders hit list. Line the lemmings up in a row and pick their pockets clean.

Warms the heart to see that the same people who carted my ass off to Vietnam to be a target now seem so concerned about my health & welfare.


Venting, pissed off, yeah that's me. I'm flat frigging sick of the whole bunch from the POL's in DC to the one's in the smallest hick towns in the what use to be the good old USA.

[Little General]

I'm ready to start throwing cases of smokes in the drink...

I trully wish we would all quit just to watch the damn suits scramble to tax something else while the state goes broke over the loss of the revenue. I'm so sick of this BS... I'm also growing tired of it in the military... They even wanted to have the great smoke-out in Iraq... Please don't smoke after being fired at all day. Just got hit with an IED? Just don't light up and you'll be ok.

Some people just need their asses kicked!! Let's start with the suits!



Venting over....

[TheRealBonger]

In the analogy of the boston tea party, i think we need a container ship full of cigs and a bon-fire. That would be a sight

[Moro]

Originally Posted by TheRealBonger

In the analogy of the boston tea party, i think we need a container ship full of cigs and a bon-fire. That would be a sight

That'd smell goooood.

I don't smoke ciggarettes, but bloody hope it stays that way, because I'm going to study there in two more years and definetely would hate not only not beeing able to buy Cubans, but also paying an out-of-yer-mind tax.

[SouthsideCigar]

They are crazy if they think people are buying the statement that the purpose of the hike is to get people to quit smoking. If they really wanted to do that they would make cigarettes illegal. They are purely looking to get more tax revenue.

Dave

[Figo]

Originally Posted by Mikepd

Today there was a state wide tax increase of $1.25 (per pack) on cigarettes. This will bring state tax on packages of cigarettes to $2.75 and be the highest in the nation. This move is in a two step project to for a "Healthy New York", to help people to quit and also to raise funds for the state, which will aide in people needing help stop smoking. The tax is only applied to cigarettes and not to loose tobacco or to cigars.

-Mike

I always like unsolicited help from my government! Sounds like a load of bull

PS I don't live in NY nor do I smoke cigarettes...just my 2 coins...