Tobacco tax story

That's one thing I miss about being in the service, being able to buy my smokes on post so they were exempt from state taxes.

My guess is that the pack ranges from $7 to 10 depends on brand name.
$7-10 is just very steep for a pack.

If I am a smoker, I would buy 2 cartons per visit at duty free shop or mexico shop*

*some smokers said that Mexican or any foreign US brand tobacco taste different. ~19 years back ,I once had 1 Marlboro light in Germany and I could not really tell the difference.

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Originally Posted by BladesNBarrels

This will date me.
10 cents a pack on the ship before I quit.
No taxes being in the Navy out of the U.S.
$1.00 per carton, limit 2 cartons per week.
Smoked about two and one half packs a day

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Sounds like when smokes were good for you, your pregnant wife, and baby.

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Originally Posted by brutal

Sounds like when smokes were good for you, your pregnant wife, and baby.

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Like.

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Originally Posted by AirbornePathogen

That's one thing I miss about being in the service, being able to buy my smokes on post so they were exempt from state taxes.

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I remember when I was overseas the guys always chummed up to the new guys when they got there......they had fresh ration cards for smokes and liquor that weren’t filled up yet.
I didn’t drink or smoke so I took many strolls down to the Class 6 on the weekends with guys in the Platoon!

Everyone was a gangsta in the 80s with cigarette.


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Originally Posted by brutal

Sounds like when smokes were good for you, your pregnant wife, and baby.

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Well, at the time, more scientists and educators smoked Kent than any other brand.
My mother's brand, and what I started smoking.
My father smoked Wings during WWII. He quit his first day back and never smoked again.
I quit after seeing my mother get emphysema and having to use oxygen. St. Luke's had a great stop-smoking clinic that included videos of lung surgery.
Yep, scare tactic does work sometimes.

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Originally Posted by JoeRoss

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You know that most people do not actually READ the proposed bill, they just go by what they see on TV.
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Do any legislators read the bills before they vote?
The recent $900 Billion Covid 19 relief bill was 5,593 pages and the Senators had 2 hours to read it before they voted.

[Coffee]

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Originally Posted by BladesNBarrels

Do any legislators read the bills before they vote?

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Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Health Care: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

I managed to make it through the Active Duty Army without a smoking habit. Very happy I didn't start. I think I have smoked about the equivalent of one cigarette while totally drunk off my ass, including once at 2005 Mardi Gras.