Bush Uses Obstructionism to Prove He Is "Relevant"

[BT]

I'm almost six years smoke free myself.

Congratulations!

And the point is not whether i would pay the tax, the point is the idiotic funding scheme they have and the illogical justification they give for it.

If you don't want to pay for it with sales tax how about  buck a gallon on fuel. Save the environment and all that.

[Xavier_Onassis]

If cigarettes had a $2 tax per pack, this would cause more people to quit than a $1 tax. At somewhere around, I am guessing $20 perpack, damne near everyone will quit or start growing or rolling their own. Dried grapevines will probably become substitutes at around $10 per pack.

I don't think a tax of $1 per pack would discourage a large number. My sister refuses to quit, even though she once told me that that she thinks she  probably spends more on ciggies than food.

[Plane]

If cigarettes had a $2 tax per pack, this would cause more people to quit than a $1 tax. At somewhere around, I am guessing $20 perpack, damne near everyone will quit or start growing or rolling their own. Dried grapevines will probably become substitutes at around $10 per pack.

I don't think a tax of $1 per pack would discourage a large number. My sister refuses to quit, even though she once told me that that she thinks she  probably spends more on ciggies than food.

 In Italy they have a tax like that , no one pays it and everyone smokes.

The government gets its cut by reselling confiscated smuggleing ships.