[SheLion]

This is happening more every day. The government created a monster when they taxed cigarettes way out of site!

[SheLion]

Puff

[2banana]

People are acting just like when the US government banned alcohol during prohibition.

I will wager that within 12 months we will see lots of "smoking speak-easies" within the borders of cities that have banned smoking in public.

Prohibition (of booze) gave us organized/wealthy criminal organizations and gun control (both of which still plague us to this day). The damage did not stop until prohibition was repealed. At least the government back then respected the US Constitution enough to amend it to try it.

I predict the near prohibition of smoking will do far worse damage...

[mhking]

Why do I keep thinking of the opening sequence from "Beverly Hills Cop," where an undercover Eddie Murphy is trying to peddle a trailer full of stolen cigarettes when I read this?

[Just another Joe]

And so it has started.
We will see more and more of this and in different ways.
I think I better start my tobacco plants NOW!

[Dead Corpse]

Shoot. the only response I can think of to this is, "I wonder if they will off-load any of those on E-Bay?"

Texas is pondering a $1 tax per pack increase. If they do, that will be when I either buy regularly off the internet, or start making trips to Mexico.

[steve50]

Friend of mine just opened one of those gas/grocery one stops, they broke in and got stole 4 grand of smokes the first month. You can take more off these places than hitting a small bank.

[advocate10]

Here in south FL, there have been dozens of convenience store break-ins where only cigarettes by the case were stolen. Several of these burglaries were caught on tape and show folks breaking windows, going in and snatching up every cigarette they could find. Cig. tax here is not higher than elsewhere. A pack costs $3.50. It will be happening more as taxes rise.

[Semaphore Heathcliffe]

The War on Cigarettes is going just as planned...

[DeaconBenjamin]

The cigarettes are too bulky -- just take the stamps.

[mvpel]

Hmmm... I thought the drug warriors said that the violent crime is caused by the drugs, not the War on Drugs.

[jdontom]

Gober Davis and the feds are laughing their a$$ off at this. Why rob Wells Fargo when you can go the the nearest warehouse and make 10 times the loot..........Plus rid the world of those nasty Cigs..........When these guys are cought they will be on Times Men of the Year.........

[PatrioticAmerican]

WOD = WOT. Make taxes high enough, and a black market will always arise.

[2harddrive]

"Armed gunmen" did it, eh? I guess that's to distinguish them from Unarmed gunmen.....

[RandallFlagg]

Didn't Rush say something about 10 days ago concerning New York passing a "Safety" ordinance outlawing cigarettes with chemicals that keep them burning to prevent fires? He said that there's going to be a three month period where smokes won't be available. Perhaps someone could check this out.

[qam1]

The sad and inevitable result of this will be police officer(s) will end being killed while breaking up one of these operations. It's only a matter of time.

The Antis will have blood on their hands.