[RikaStrom]

Oh this is just going to backfire on NYC. They are going to lose the tax revenue because people are going to go online to get their smokes. You'll see an increase in "make your own" and then what's going to happen?

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[hobbes1]

How can it backfire? Don't you guys get it?

Only one of two things can Happen.

1. Revenue goes up, the Mayor wins.

2. Revenue goes down, the Mayor claims less people smoke, the Mayor wins....

[Gabz]

And don't forget the increase in smuggling that will surely occur. It happened in Canada and within less than a year they had rescinded the huge increase they tacked on.

I also foresee a skyrocketing of the number of cigarette thefts that invariably occur following hge tax increases.