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$7 for a pack of cigarettes? What do you think of California’s cigarette tax initiative?

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If you smoke a pack a day, the new tax will increase the amount you spend per year on cigarettes by $936. And the state might not even make money on it because how do they know that people won’t buy their cigarettes in Nevada?
I wasn’t thinking I’d go to Nevada every time I need a pack of smokes, I was thinking I’d go there every once in a while and stock up

sin crimes and blue laws are a b*tch ain’t they?

our rights are eroding because we don’t notice how the laws have sneaked around them… you are right to wonder.

http://www.duiblog.com/2005/05/09

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18 Responses to “$7 for a pack of cigarettes? What do you think of California’s cigarette tax initiative?”

  1. DarkLotus says:

    i think it might stop people from smoking
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  2. Pancakes says:

    That is how you tax poor people and not have a huge back lash against it.
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  3. p_l_gray says:

    They should make cigarettes $20.00 per pack.
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  4. lulu belle says:

    Are you complaining? In certain provinces of canada they are 11.50 a pack. No joke.
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  5. baby_girl says:

    that would be enough to make me quit smoking
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  6. cander105 says:

    New york and new jersey are the same. I"M totally against tobacco but I don’t that the price of cigarettes should be that high to get people to stop smoking. thats about 2 gallons of gas right there
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  7. MzHazelnut22 says:

    I think its a great idea. There will be die hards that continue to smoke, but that is their choice. I haev bad lungs, unfortunatley i was born with it, so i have no respect for the people who knowingly hurt their lungs. I didn’t have a choice. They do.
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  8. scheidi_schmutzinschlitz says:

    All taxes should be lowered. ALL OF THEM.

    And I dont smoke and I hate it, but the oppression levied on smokers is a disgrace.
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  9. uncle osbert says:

    sin crimes and blue laws are a b*tch ain’t they?

    our rights are eroding because we don’t notice how the laws have sneaked around them… you are right to wonder.

    http://www.duiblog.com/2005/05/09
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  10. Age 16 says:

    Talking about Canadian cigarettes, it’s like $15.00 per pack for an average brand. No I don’t smoke and I think the tax should be higher!!!!

    Curse you smokers, I HATE second hand smoke.
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  11. Romance says:

    I think it will actually improve the economy because less people will smoke. Non-smokers usually have better jobs and get paid more. Everyone will live longer happier lives!
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  12. emucompboy says:

    It’s a stopgap measure.

    I have another, better proposal.
    You know how liquor stores have the "you must be born before this date in the year [...] to purchase tobacco products" — what if they never changed that sign? LOL. The legal age for buying would increase by one each year. Grandfather the current crop of addicts, while not allowing a new generation to get hooked.
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  13. *B/R*ToNi* says:

    I GET MINE THROUGH THE MAIL…………
    $3.50 PK!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  14. bunchik says:

    $7 for a pack of cigarettes?
    Thats all???

    Should be like $10 to $20 bucks a pack…
    Smokers are complete IDIOTS!

    With ALL the knowlegde we know of
    lung cancer, etc…and ALL the animal
    testing (Done for nothing?) and ALL the
    deaths per year FROM smoking….
    Folks still smoke?

    Only a IDIOT
    pays the tobacco companies
    to GET CANCER!!!
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  15. ts says:

    Well why dont show them u mean business and stop smoking.I dont live in Cali, but im all for taxes for stupid people who are killing themselves with smoking.What’s sad is they could sell them 20 bucks a pack and people would buy them.I sure don’t see everyone in that state going to Nevada every time they need a pack of smokes! You will get that tax money back when you get emphysema and cancer, no worries…..
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  16. bigmammarush says:

    i’m sooooooo glad i live in Missouri where it takes California’s trends 10 years to get here!
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  17. rallman@sbcglobal.net says:

    Had heart attack four years, from smoking, sounds like good idea
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  18. trl_666 says:

    I think its fantastic! It will stop people from smoking because they cant afford it. Which will make life much nicer not having to smell that crap, and have my lungs destroyed
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