time to stop smoking. cigs here in some places just went from $3.80 a pack to $5.00 a pack and they are saying buy the end of the week after sales taxes, they will be over $6.00 a pack. yeap, i'm givimg them up. what are any of you guys paying right now?

 

here in ontario canada they can be over $10 a pack depending on what size and brand

 

I think philip morris is going up $0.60 tomorrow and at the end of the month I think another $0.60 tax. Currently $4.27 after tax so it's time to quit again. I quit for about year and dumbass me started back up last year.

 

$9.55 For Two Packs Marlboro lights in Louisiana/Metairie

 

Another here in Canada. 85.00+ a carton or 10.00 per pack.

 

Kools and Newports run me about $5 a pack dependeing on where I'm at. They have been that way for about a year or so now. I remeber when I first started smoking Newports I could get them for $1.67 out the door.

 

Most thieves I encounter now are stealing for their crack, meth, or weed habits. Looks like this will bring out a whole new crop of thieves, stealing to fund their smokes habit......

 

go to hand rolled straight tobacco. Much nicer. Far cheaper. Just a thought. Quitting would be far smarter.

Thats what I do. I also buy Djarums. Little more pricey, but man they are nice to unwind with. I also enjoy a real nice cigar once in awhile. Smoking those less and less, due to price and current conditions.

 

i smoke basic. i get them for $2.11 out the door. they have a 50cent coupon in every pack and kroger doubles coupons. they are $3.00 at most places

 

I think Kentucky has the cheapest bc most of the tobacco is produced here.

 

Yup. Bastards. Marlboro reds were $5.09 a pack at my store, today? $6.22. It's ridiculous paying 5 a pack, much less over 6. Looks like it's time to cut back.

 

I paid 4.40 yesterday Marb Lights. Unlike gas when it was 4+ bucks a gallon, I don't think these will be going down.

Time to pick up some other bad habbit

 

Yeah I read a note at the store this morning said price was going up $6+ a carton on 4/1/09

 

Nope. The cured 'bacco goes else where to be processed into cigs, snuff, chew, etc. Plus, the blend of tobacco comes from a wide variety of places.


About 18 months ago I toured the JR Reynolds cig factory in Winston-Salem. They had bales of overseas tobacco as well as domestic. The only place I remember for certain Africa.

 

so, obozo raises the tax on cigarettes to pay for his record save the world defecit. large numbers of people quit smoking cause they cant afford it. what does that do to his projected income of taxes.

i heard on fox that accountants phones are busy with people of the over 250K looking to get their reportable income under that. one person said that they can do that with a deffered income account. they put everything over 249,999.00 in an account and draw on that after retirement.

this guy is going to take away any incentive for success.

whats next taxing MRE's consumed by the troops?