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I am floored by the price of cigarettes as described in this opinion piece and would like to know what percentage of the pack price is taxes assessed by the state:
On a trip to New York this summer, I was in the newsstand/gift shop of a hotel, and a man in front of me in line was purchasing something. I heard the clerk say to him: "That will be $18.30."
He handed her his money, and she handed him a pack of cigarettes. He thanked her and left.
"A pack of cigarettes costs $18.30?" I said to the clerk.
"That's our most inexpensive price," she said. "Some of them are over $20."
hey if smokers don't want to pay 20 bucks a pack they can quit (which is actually good for them) or pick up used butts off the ground and smoke them I don't care...
heck high prices forcigarettes means less chances teens will pick up the gross habit and it also means reduced Cancer rates..
Sounds higher than usual, unless they've very recently passed some new tax hiking them even further that I'm unaware of. Just last summer I was paying $10-12/pack for brand name cigarettes...Marlboro, Camel, etc. Since then I've quit and don't even live in NY any more, but that was already about twice what most of the rest of the country was paying for a pack.
It's a stupid habit anyway. I was a light to moderate smoker for 10 years and now I don't miss that crap at all. Jacking the price does work though. Lot's of people do quit when when the price doubles or triples.
I am floored by the price of cigarettes as described in this opinion piece and would like to know what percentage of the pack price is taxes assessed by the state:
On a trip to New York this summer, I was in the newsstand/gift shop of a hotel, and a man in front of me in line was purchasing something. I heard the clerk say to him: "That will be $18.30."
He handed her his money, and she handed him a pack of cigarettes. He thanked her and left.
"A pack of cigarettes costs $18.30?" I said to the clerk.
"That's our most inexpensive price," she said. "Some of them are over $20."
thats a lot of taxes. even when my baccy crop dont last and I have to buy it I can make a pack for about 50 cents. and thats the natural chemical free stuff. maybe I should sell em in NYC
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