Tobacco tax story

[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.

[MrPrena]

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.

[brutal]

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

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

[ray1970]

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

Like.

[TEAMRICO]

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.

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!

[MrPrena]

Everyone was a gangsta in the 80s with cigarette.

[BladesNBarrels]

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

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.

[BladesNBarrels]

......
You know that most people do not actually READ the proposed bill, they just go by what they see on TV.
....

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.

[JoeRoss]

Do any legislators read the bills before they vote?

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

[.455_Hunter]

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.