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Pack it in!City targets cop’s cheap cigs
nypost.com ^ | 10/25/2011 | ANDY CAMPBELL and AMBER SUTHERLAND

Posted on 10/25/2011 7:51:50 AM PDT by massmike

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To: cuban leaf

And REAL candy bars too!! Not the postage stamp-sized ones you see these days!


21 posted on 10/25/2011 8:28:44 AM PDT by catman67
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To: cuban leaf

That’s just criminal.


22 posted on 10/25/2011 8:30:46 AM PDT by montyspython (This thread needs more cowbell)
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To: catman67

I remember when they increased the price of gum from a nickel for a five stick pack to a dime for a ten stick pack. I swore off gum for YEARS.

It’s funny how people have just gotten used to prices going up. I have a stack of ten Morgan silver dollars I like to show people. I tell them that the stack was worth $10 back in the early 1920’s and was worth $10 in the mid-1970’s. Now it’s worth about $350.

I have a very SERIOUS problem with that. So serious that I moved out of the city and bought a home and farm in very rural country. We can be 100% self sufficient here if it comes to that. I’ll miss air conditioning in parts of July though...


23 posted on 10/25/2011 8:33:31 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: massmike
“The price of cigarettes is getting so high I can't afford my chemotherapy.”

—Rodney Dangerfield

24 posted on 10/25/2011 8:35:31 AM PDT by Happy Rain ( "Many of the most useful idiots of the Left are on the Right.")
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To: farmguy

—After trying smoking that once ... I did.—

Hehe. In the early 70’s someone passed me a cigarette made to look like a joint. I took a good hard hit and, about two minutes later, threw up rather violently.

Strong stuff.

Disclaimer - I have not touched the “evil weed” since 1977.


25 posted on 10/25/2011 8:35:55 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: cuban leaf

Oops.

dime for a ten stick pack = Dime for an eight stick pack...

Doh!


26 posted on 10/25/2011 8:37:15 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: wolfman23601

My husband and I have been making our own for over 10 years. We buy a “carton” of tubes - basically empty cigarettes, filter and all then use a small machine to “stuff” the tubes. About $7.50 a carton.


27 posted on 10/25/2011 8:58:39 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: bigbob
I suppose setting the tax on the loose tobacco at the same rate as cigarettes never occurred to them.

They already do. A pound of (cheap) domestically grown tobacco runs roughly $14, $5 of which is tax mandated under the MSA.

28 posted on 10/25/2011 8:59:41 AM PDT by ProfoundBabe ("Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other." - OW Holmes)
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To: massmike

Sin taxes are against the spirit of the constitution.


29 posted on 10/25/2011 9:00:51 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: GraceG
Sin taxes are against the spirit of the constitution.

"The what.......?"

30 posted on 10/25/2011 9:19:52 AM PDT by massmike (Massachusetts:Stopped hanging witches;started electing Kennedys.Coincidence?)
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31 posted on 10/25/2011 9:27:11 AM PDT by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: from occupied ga

It is the patriotic duty of every American to pay as little in taxes as the law allows. ;)


32 posted on 10/25/2011 9:28:07 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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