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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:14 PM
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Gotta love New Hampshire: 6-pack+pack of cigs+ newspeper = $7
In Boston, that'd run at least $10. The smokes alone would be $6.

Yeah, I should quit. Shaddap.
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Goldmund Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:16 PM
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1. In NYC, that'd run you almost $20
I should quit too...
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:17 PM
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2. I am almost ready to say...
Pop one of those brewskis and pass it this way.

Nah. Scratch that. ;-)
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:17 PM
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3. Rarely drinks, never smokes, reads news papers online
Cost: $0.00!

How you like them monkeys?
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 05:56 PM
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18. Yessir! We musta been separated at birth! Same here!
Saving money is sooo cool.
My last vice is cream in my coffee. But we don't have Starbucks here in VT, so I really save on the whole deal.

Bravo the last frontier!
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blue america Donating Member (204 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:18 PM
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4. Reminds me of the good old days in NJ
Before McGreevey's War on Smokers.

If your talking run of the mill beer (Bud, Miller), thats 5 bucks. Smokes, a good price is 5.50, but most liquor stores they'll go a bit over 6. And our newspapers are still 50 cents though. Unless its the Times.

thats why i order smokes from the native americans.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:18 PM
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5. we used to go to the Puff-in-stop right near the Maine border
to pick up booze and butts, always a good deal. Yeah, i should quit too but not today.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:23 PM
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6. Damned liberal nanny state
Who knows how many voters we've lost over this. To pay for health care costs, then have states turn around and actually use the money to build more roads so there will be more cars and more pollution causing more health problems. Go figure.
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idiosyncratic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:24 PM
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7. Gosh, a six pack here costs $7.00. Cigarettes are $4.50. n/t
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:26 PM
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9. i dont know where you live but
here in northern california you can go to walgreens and they are $3.45 a pack which is abour 70 cents less than at the supermarket or gas station.
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lumberingbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 07:03 PM
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25. I always think it's wierd....
for drugstores to sell cancer sticks!!!!
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:26 PM
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8. Shit, they oughta be payin' you
to take that nasty PBR off their hands.

<ducking>
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 03:56 PM
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10. Hi, Will.
:hug:
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UpsideDownFlag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 04:47 PM
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15. i thought Pitt's SN was Will Pitt. nt
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 05:08 PM
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16. Hey Bertha
:) Good work with the kitten.
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da_chimperor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 04:01 PM
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11. That'd be around 7 or 8 euros over here, and I'm not quitting either
so you won't get any lip from me about it. :smoke:
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 04:19 PM
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12. you SHOULD QUIT!
newspapers are bad these days ;)
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Kay Autic Donating Member (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 04:25 PM
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13. $2.68 per pack Marlboro's
and that's after tax...but not for long.


OK just passed a new "tax" on ciggies. Eliminated sales tax and will charge 4¢ PER CIG!! (That is 80¢ per pack increase for the mathematically challenged among us)

Smoke 'em if you got em
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Philostopher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 04:31 PM
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14. That's about what we pay now, in Ohio.
I cut way back and switched to American Spirits a couple of years ago (I've let it get out of control this week, but not so bad I can't get back on my 5-6 a day plan, I hope!), they're $4.50 a pack with tax. Philip Morris brands are close to $4 a pack.

As someone else mentioned, they pushed a big 'sin tax' increase promising to spend the money on public health stuff, then threw it into the general fund within a year.
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mrbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 06:57 AM
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30. do the indians have to collect that new okla 4-cent per cig tax?
Live eight miles south of The Chickasaw Travel Plaza and Smokeshop at exit one on interstate 35. Have spent many hours over the years talking to the clerks about cigarette laws.

They were collecting a small percentage of the Oklahoma sales tax. Nobody seems to know how the new 4-cent per cig tax will apply.

Currently a carton of nice generics is $15.85. Basic math skills show a potential increase of $8.00 per carton. That's $1.59 per pack to $2.39

A six-pack is $5.40 at the travel center, and a Dallas Morning News or Daily Oklahoman is 50-cents in the newsrack out front.

Blackjack is coming to the "casino".
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 05:52 PM
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17. Livin free is great as long as your spry,BEWARE(READING NEWSPAPERS)
COULD CAUSE YOU TO DIE.
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NewHampshireDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 06:00 PM
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19. Yes, the children of New Hampshire thank you
for taking advantage of our "tax free" state while they flounder in under-funded schools. Yup, gotta love it. :sheesh:
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 06:06 PM
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20. Just don't stick around long enough to pay R.E. tax.
6 grand a year...$500 a month...in my last year there...1993.
On a $250,000 house.
whew
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Gardeaux08 Donating Member (291 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 06:30 PM
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21. Newports are
$3.86 plus tax in PA. And I typically drink Guinness but I can't afford that at all anymore.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 06:31 PM
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22. Illinois, home of $2.49/pack Pall Malls!
:hi:
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 06:58 PM
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23. Low-tax, low-service.
As long as you don't need any special services, you're ok in New Hampshire.
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 06:59 PM
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24. I paid $6 for a pack of Newport Lights
here in Connecticut.
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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 07:07 PM
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26. Newspeepers are much more expensive in Texas.
And they can't be trusted.

How're the battle scars?
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Shopaholic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 07:24 PM
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27. Okay--I've finally found something the South kicks ass on--
low cigarette prices:evilgrin:
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indigobusiness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-06-04 07:37 PM
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28. Nah, this ain't the South...and cigs are expensive ... edit- wait
Edited on Sat Nov-06-04 07:39 PM by indigobusiness
Texas spans regions and is more of a subcontinent.

Ass-kicking things used to abound...


edit- doh...I get it...you win.
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-07-04 05:37 AM
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29. Jeez... I hope that wasn't a morning paper...
Edited on Sun Nov-07-04 05:39 AM by alg0912
If so, you must be taking the loss as hard as I am.;)

On edit: Native American reservations are a good place to get cheap smokes, although they don't sell liquor (at least not at the reservations I've been to).
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