Another $1.25 tax added to cigs in NYS

[moshquerade]

How can people afford to smoke? Pack a day for low end cigs = $6
$6 x 7 = $42/wk or $168/month to smoke.

Cigarette Tax Increasing
Last Update: 4/03 7:14 am

Albany, NY - The New York Legislature has agreed to boost the state cigarette tax by $1.25 per pack, making the new tax $2.75. That puts New York ahead of New Jersey for the nation's highest state sales tax on cigarettes.

State budget office spokesman Jeffrey Godron says the tax would raise $265 million for the budget, most of which will be used for health programs.

The average price of a pack of cigarettes is about $5.82 statewide.

The original proposal was for a $1.50 increase

http://www.wetmtv.com/mostpopu...492f-b0b5-8d891d8153c6

 

[SunnyD]

Good. Now if they'd just drop the gasoline tax...

 

[ahurtt]

There are far cheaper and quicker ways to kill yourself, you know?

I guess it's true what they say: A fool and his money will surely be parted.

 

[waggy]

what bothers me is what are the going to tax when they make smokeing against the law or more people quit?

 

[ahurtt]

Originally posted by: waggy
what bothers me is what are the going to tax when they make smokeing against the law or more people quit?

The air of course.
And your property.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: waggy
what bothers me is what are the going to tax when they make smokeing against the law or more people quit?

more tax on gas and alcohol.... wait... they'll do that anyway.

 

[Aikouka]

I :heart: New York... they ban smoking in public places so I don't feel asphyxiated when I go out into some restaurant or club or whatever... it's a beautiful thing 🙂.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I :heart: New York... they ban smoking in public places so I don't feel asphyxiated when I go out into some restaurant or club or whatever... it's a beautiful thing 🙂.

it actually spoils you so that when you go to a different state, NC, for example, that it's a killer going into a smoke filled bar.

 

[Blieb]

They're talking about adding a buck here in FL! ...

Glad I haven't been a "smoker" in almost 6 years ...

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I :heart: New York... they ban smoking in public places so I don't feel asphyxiated when I go out into some restaurant or club or whatever... it's a beautiful thing 🙂.

That smell is the dissipation of a business owner's ability to make his own decisions 😉

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I :heart: New York... they ban smoking in public places so I don't feel asphyxiated when I go out into some restaurant or club or whatever... it's a beautiful thing 🙂.

it actually spoils you so that when you go to a different state, NC, for example, that it's a killer going into a smoke filled bar.

yea its annoying in states where they dont have the law and you are used to it


it however is great in Boston where you see 30 people outside of a club wearing almost no clothing in sub zero weather choking down a cig

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it actually spoils you so that when you go to a different state, NC, for example, that it's a killer going into a smoke filled bar.

I used to live in PA and went to college in PA, so I was quite used to the opposite. But I could see how it'd be a pain. When I went down to visit a friend in PA, we got stuck in the smoking section of the Chinese place 🙁.

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
That smell is the dissipation of a business owner's ability to make his own decisions 😉

Ahh, that's a pretty nice aroma 🙂.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: moshquerade
it actually spoils you so that when you go to a different state, NC, for example, that it's a killer going into a smoke filled bar.

I used to live in PA and went to college in PA, so I was quite used to the opposite. But I could see how it'd be a pain. When I went down to visit a friend in PA, we got stuck in the smoking section of the Chinese place 🙁.

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
That smell is the dissipation of a business owner's ability to make his own decisions 😉

Ahh, that's a pretty nice aroma 🙂.

i went to college in PA also

fing hated going to the bars because of it

 

[clamum]

Weak. Glad I live in Michigan then.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: Anubis
i went to college in PA also

fing hated going to the bars because of it

When you're a cheap ass college kid... having to do something like prematurely wash your coat or whatever because it smells like smoke is a tad bit annoying =\.

 

[Evadman]

Are you sure that is the highest in the nation? I thought Chicago was higher at $3.25 total I don't smoke, so I'm not sure.

 

[Miramonti]

I'm not a smoker but a neighbor buys pall mall cartons for $20 at local Indian casino smoke shops (NM).

 

[KK]

anybody want me to ship them some cigs? I think they are cheap here. ~25-30 carton for marlboros.. 😛

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Originally posted by: waggy
what bothers me is what are the going to tax when they make smokeing against the law or more people quit?

or they all die and the all the new potential smokers never start, in order to replace them?

hmm.

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I :heart: New York... they ban smoking in public places so I don't feel asphyxiated when I go out into some restaurant or club or whatever... it's a beautiful thing 🙂.

California is eons ahead of you my friend. Here you can't even smoke on public piers out in the bay in San Francisco.

 

[Queasy]

NY State - #1 in blackmarket cigarettes.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Queasy
NY State - #1 in blackmarket cigarettes.

Wasn't it NY that requested the sales logs of some online cigarette dealers and tried collect a couple million in taxes due?

 

[ViviTheMage]

its getting expensive to kill yourself...maybe people will stop.

 

[KeithTalent]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...tBR6-w&feature=related

KT

 

[Q]

Not very good timing with this tax, IMO with our economy sucking right now. I do not smoke but that's just my opinion.