Smoke break gets more expensive with tax boost

Started by garbon, March 29, 2009, 01:22:00 PM

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Fireblade

#15
March 30, 2009, 04:38:46 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 30, 2009, 08:33:49 AM
I approve.
Snus should be more widespread too. That'd help things.

I've just started dipping that Camel Snus that just came out. Good stuff.

garbon

#16
March 30, 2009, 05:09:44 PM
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on March 30, 2009, 01:35:07 PM
Cigarette taxes have no real influence on my consumption of them.  I only smoke a pack a week at most, I can pay a bit more.  In the US I was usually buying Nat Sherman anyway, which were already expensive.

They influenced me as a poor intern in Chicago.  Indignant that they cost almost double what they cost in SF, I didn't smoke most of the summer until I found that shady shop. :blush:
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Capetan Mihali

#17
March 30, 2009, 07:46:23 PM
I switched to discount brands, mainly.  Still not too bad in Philadelphia compared to NJ or NY (now it's a bit over $5.00 a pack of premiums), got to go to Delaware for the good deals (though not what they were a few years ago, must have had a state tax hike).
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Admiral Yi

#18
March 30, 2009, 08:13:47 PM
Maybe it's time for me to switch to discount as well.  Any reccomendations?  What do you smoke Capetano?

Vince

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March 30, 2009, 08:48:53 PM Last Edit: March 30, 2009, 09:09:19 PM by Vince
Quote from: Berkut on March 30, 2009, 01:21:23 PM
Every now and again the NYS government tries to go after the Indians and force them to assess taxes on smokes.

Last time the Indians responded by blockading Interstate 90.

Good times. Should have sent zombie Custer.

You should've seen the reaction a few years back the night Turning Stone towed NYS Trooper Squad Cars from the casino parking lot.    :menace:

jimmy olsen

#20
March 30, 2009, 10:54:35 PM
Quote from: Fireblade on March 30, 2009, 04:38:46 PM
Quote from: Tyr on March 30, 2009, 08:33:49 AM
I approve.
Snus should be more widespread too. That'd help things.

I've just started dipping that Camel Snus that just came out. Good stuff.

Dipping. :x
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Habbaku

#21
March 30, 2009, 11:29:13 PM
We as in snus?
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Korea

#22
March 30, 2009, 11:45:53 PM
Well, luckily (i guess) for me I find the buy1get1 free packs of marlboro lights all the time.
I want my mother fucking points!

MadBurgerMaker

#23
March 31, 2009, 11:13:24 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 30, 2009, 10:54:35 PM
Dipping. :x

The stuff he's talking about is rather different from the "regular" "dip" like Copenhagen, etc.

Josquius

#24
March 31, 2009, 11:38:06 AM
Quote from: fahdiz on March 30, 2009, 01:18:34 PM
Quote from: dps on March 30, 2009, 01:11:35 PM
It quit being about trying to discourage people from smoking several years ago.

Social pressure and recent no-smoking-in-buildings laws are pretty much doing that on their own.

Is that US wide now? Last I heard (ages ago) it was just in NY.
But it does seem to be spreading across much of Europe so I can hope America is following suit.
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grumbler

#25
March 31, 2009, 11:54:34 AM
Quote from: Tyr on March 31, 2009, 11:38:06 AM
Is that US wide now? Last I heard (ages ago) it was just in NY.
But it does seem to be spreading across much of Europe so I can hope America is following suit.
This is happening even in Virginia, where Tobacco is King.
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Capetan Mihali

#26
March 31, 2009, 12:44:23 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on March 30, 2009, 08:13:47 PM
Maybe it's time for me to switch to discount as well.  Any reccomendations?  What do you smoke Capetano?

I get Gold Coast when I can, and usually USA Gold otherwise.  Didn't like Mavericks or Dorals very much.  Basics are fine but usually not that much cheaper around here.
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Iormlund

#27
March 31, 2009, 12:55:35 PM
Quote from: fahdiz on March 30, 2009, 01:18:34 PM
Quote from: dps on March 30, 2009, 01:11:35 PM
It quit being about trying to discourage people from smoking several years ago.

Social pressure and recent no-smoking-in-buildings laws are pretty much doing that on their own.
Lucky Americans. They'll never ban smoking on pubs here. I hate the fucking tobacco stink every time I come home.

garbon

#28
March 31, 2009, 01:53:16 PM Last Edit: March 31, 2009, 01:54:57 PM by garbon
Quote from: Tyr on March 31, 2009, 11:38:06 AM
Is that US wide now? Last I heard (ages ago) it was just in NY.
But it does seem to be spreading across much of Europe so I can hope America is following suit.

California has had a smoking ban since the early 90s (bars and clubs got banned in the late 90s).
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

garbon

#29
March 31, 2009, 01:56:48 PM
Quote from: Iormlund on March 31, 2009, 12:55:35 PM
Lucky Americans. They'll never ban smoking on pubs here. I hate the fucking tobacco stink every time I come home.

Really? Smoking bans seem to be catching on in Europe from what I've seen.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.
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