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Another Cigarette Tax Increase Before the Voters
OK, so we outlawed Boozxe and when the price of black market liquor supposedly drove the underworld into business, we legalized and taxed it. Now it looks like we may very well tax tobacco to the point we'll get the underworld back in business. How much would a ciggy be if this one passes?
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Wasn't this tax proposed and passed last time? How many taxes on cigarettes are there and all supposed to be used for cancer research?
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This is a new one that will be on the ballot. Yes, we've already passed two, and rejected one I think. Someone thinks there's still money to be fleeced from smokers...after all, who's the victim?
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Cigarette smokers should take a clue from smart pot smokers and start growing the stuff themselves. The seeds are available on the internet and it is completely legal to grow it yourself. Growing it is not complicated, but curing it is a little fussy. It is a fermentation process requiring high temperatures and humidity. Once you grow it and process it, you can't sell it without some kind of license from the government.
The cigarette model of taxation is a better model than alcohol for how to treat pot if that is legalized. Although, home grown pot is already well established in the consumer culture around marijuana.
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Are you talking about growing pot or tobacco?
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Who? What ballot?
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I think you mean california, ok.
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New York
I was told cigarettes in New York at $11.00 a pack , so many go to the reservation , now the state is after them.
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This bugs me greatly. I smoke and at my age, the tar is holding me in one piece. I don't drink or take drugs. Never ran over anyone with a cigarette. That doesn't justify my habit.
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Former smoker here, so take what I say with a huge grain of salt; tax them till they don't smoke any more. I currently live in Glendale, and one of the best things this city did was pass a smoke-free ordinance for outside cafe/restaurant seating. Now, I can go to Starbucks or the Maryland Exchange and NOT have to inhale second-hand smoke being expelled from Armos that do nothing all day but nurse one cup of coffee, chain smoke and hatch insurance fraud schemes.
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