That's the same, lame excuses they used in Canada to hike up tobacco taxes. Tobacco smokers pay most of the cost of health care in Canada, yet they still have to stand in long lines. They should get priority service!!!
Smokers in California better get ready for the $11.25 per pack cost of cigarettes. And every other state as well. Sooner or later they will all jump on the cash cow.
This makes the government no better than the crack dealer.
sell an adictive product, then jack up the price when you have everyone addicted.
That's the same, lame excuses they used in Canada to hike up tobacco taxes. Tobacco smokers pay most of the cost of health care in Canada, yet they still have to stand in long lines. They should get priority service!!!
Smokers in California better get ready for the $11.25 per pack cost of cigarettes. And every other state as well. Sooner or later they will all jump on the cash cow.
This makes the government no better than the crack dealer.
sell an adictive product, then jack up the price when you have everyone addicted.Well, thank God there are alternative measures!
Can't stand the high taxes?
Afraid to order off of the Internet?
Then start rolling your own!!! I find everything but the machine downtown at the local Smoke Shop. Also, Rite Aid and grocery stores also sell the bags of tobacco and the filtered tubes.
I roll out a beautiful carton for a little under $8 dollars. Premiums in my state are now up to $45-$50 a carton. Can you imagine the money I have saved over the past 4 years since I now roll my own? It's mind boggling.
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It's not about health issues, children or any of that. The government has found a somewhat "undesirable" group that it can extort money out of for it's coffers. As another poster stated, smokers are becoming an unpopular lot, due mainly to propoganda.
If they were really concerned about "health cost issues", homosexuality would have been banned or taxed long ago. Women's healthcare costs tend to exceed those of men. Why no extra tax on them? Additionally, I would be interested to see exacly what extra health care costs smokers incur. I've been smoking for 20 years and it never made me sick. I've known 3 people who died of lung cancer in my life and only one was a smoker. I understand there is SOME risk involved but compared to other activities, the risk of sickness or injury is small.
It's just about the money they can get from the "undesirables".