Originally posted by 00SVT:
Originally posted by Rickson:


Keep the insults to ur self "you might be high right now". Keep this conversation civil or do not post man. Seriously.



Wow. It was a joke. I even put the winking smiley face in there thinking it might tip you off.

Originally posted by Rickson:


So you are telling me the goverment works around laws to keep there wealth only needing cigarette tax? lol




Nope, but I can tell you there's enough money being made off of cigs that there are thousands of well-connected lobbyists who'd love to head that off and billions of dollars in PACs that would instantly dry up at the mere mention of "getting people to stop smoking". "So you want to get people to stop smoking?? Hey states, tax the s**t out of them (wink, wink... nudge nudge)... surely people will balk at $6 per pack. That'll get them to stop... See, Citizens for a Better America?? We're really taking the bull by the horns here. We say SMOKING STINKS!!"

Originally posted by rickson:

Our goverment can find another way to make that money come to them trust me. This cigarette tax just fell into there lap and they took advatage of it. Just wait till you seee in a couple years the goverments new fat tax(fast food tax will be on every fast food including soft drinks). It will take the place of cigarette tax. If you search you will find cities are all ready enforcing it. This past year they grossed an annual 500 bilions dollars. Seems to be taking the place already you think?



I know all about the "fat tax". But don't kid yourself, it's not "replacing" a cigarette tax. It's an additional tax. The government makes FAR too much money on cigarettes to ever make an effort to get people to stop. They'll do the "it causes cancer and deformed fetuses and impotence and yellow teeth and thin wallets and emphysema and black plague" song and dance all day long because it appeases enough people. Find me a person who fires up a cig, reads the Surgeon General warning on the side and says to themselves, "Huh... never knew 'bout that. Into the trash you go, vile sticks!!" Not happening. Lip service and nothing else.

Now... having said that: There's a tasty Camel Light calling my name. Be right back.



Its not replacing it, but it could. Also the state is rasing the taxes. The goverment is making companies have a higher tax deductable to counter wieght the decrease in sales because of states increasing the tax. Trust me i am not kidding myself. Cigarettes will become less common in 10 years. It will be down to the commited smokers only still having them. The new generation is less likely to carry the smoking fasination like we did.

Lets be real ur line of who looks at the box and decides to quit. You never know. did some one. probably not. And you know why its there. Becuase they have too lol. So leave that silly label out of this. Unless you want to talk about this petty thing compared to this petty thing.

You stated the most common heard phrase
"Do you know how much money goverment gets from cigarettes."

Not state but goverment. Please give me an honest quote?? How much ot the tax is the goverments tax?

I reject your reality and substitute my own.