FTC Report Shows Big Decline in Cigarette Sales after 2009 Federal Cigarette Tax Increase

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids ^ | Sep. 21, 2012 | Susan M. Liss

[Drango]

Econ 101.

An increase in price, reduces demand.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Total cigarette sales have increased when you include those sold on the black market.

[political1]

The electronic cigarettes are going to effect the sales also. One gets the nicotine, but not the smoke. I use them now, and haven’t smoked in over a year. I am not sure how the tax’s will be counted on them.

[spawn44]

Susie. If you believe that I have some nice SWAMP LAND in Florida you will be interested in.

[fhayek]

Two words. Black market.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Next lesson: price elasticity of demand.

Third lesson: price elasticity of supply.

Someone learned those advanced lessons:

“Cigarette contraband has become so profitable that it is attracting organized crime and former drug contrabandists, ....”

http://www.tobaccoreviews.net/contraband-cigarettes-sales-increased-in-virginia/

[JRandomFreeper]

Tobacco companies spend far more to market tobacco products than states spend to prevent and reduce tobacco use

Governments also clear more 'profit' from cigarettes than the tobacco companies do.

Some of us just went to less taxed forms of tobacco.

/johnny

[nhwingut]

The 2nd to last paragraph is pure liberalism, dripping with dictatorial demands.

[LearsFool]

Or one acronym: RYO

I switched after hearing the super-tax on cigarettes was on the way. Then loaded way up after hearing the super-tax on RYO tobacco was on the way - and before my favorite supplier (D&R) got out of the business. Still rolling.

[Mark]

How many murders are committed due to the War On Tobacco?

[MNJohnnie]

I have to laugh that the same people who say increasing taxes on cigarettes reduces smoking but increasing taxes on income has no economic effect

[stylin19a]

"Tobacco use is the nation's number one cause of preventable death, killing more than 400,000 people and costing $96 billion in health care bills each year"

That 4000,000 number hasn't changed in 20 years yet less number of people are smoking now than ever before.

So which is right ? ( p.s. 70,000 smokers a year 85 and over are included in that 4000,000 number that die prematurely)

[DJ MacWoW]

Your link leads to a nanny/lefty run site that partners with the World Health Organization. Why are you posting lefty drivel? Ahhhh! That's right! You're a nanny-stater when it's something that YOU disapprove of.

Kick the habit! Become a CONSERVATIVE.

[andyk]

No, no, no, that never happened. For that to have happened would mean that Obama raised taxes on the poor.

[LearsFool]

(p.s. 70,000 smokers a year 85 and over are included in that 400,000 number that die prematurely)

Hahaha! Sounds about right for today's "science". Here's another one, I'll bet:

Doctor: "Did your great-grandfather smoke?"

Grieving man: "I recall he said he tried it once when he was a boy."

Doctor: "Okay, we'll put it down as another smoking-related death."

[JRandomFreeper]

Yep. The OP has a history of fairly frothing about cigarettes.

Must hate free men that chose for themselves.

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.

/johnny

[DJ MacWoW]

Yep!

[cripplecreek]

In this case, the taxes just drove people to other methods and government won’t accept the revenue loss laying down. They’ll just hike the taxes somewhere else.

[cripplecreek]

Or one acronym: RYO

When they jacked up the tax on loose cigarette tobacco by 2300%, a lot of people simply switched to the coarser cut pipe tobacco which they say is effectively the same as the cigarette tobacco at half the price.