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thats a whole carton worth of cigs for $8-$12 bucks. they taste better and since you have to make them yourself it has kind of helped me not smoke as many. just not enough time to roll a pack a day.
^^I do that, too. Sometimes I splurge for the occasional pack of camels when I feel lazy but all in all I end up saving over $150 a month.
Also, I find that I smoke less because I know that I made every cigarette with work love and it makes it more valuable. And honestly I prefer the tasty of cheap ass Gambler tobacco to camel... it taste better, like tobacco should and not like a BUNCH of additives.
and karma to kdogg for all his knowledgeable stats.
I know here in GA, the tax on cartons is about to go up to about $8 (not sure what it was before), but Phillip Morris decided to go ahead and implement the new tax immediately...definitely motivation to quit!
GA tax went up today. When I stopped to get gas there were 2 guys inside arguing with the cashier.
Marlboro/Camels/ Newports: $5.50 American Spirits/ Djarms (what I like) : $7.25
Post by coanbread751 on Mar 16, 2009 18:47:45 GMT -5
My Camels went from around 3.25 a pack to 4.00 a pack here in Frankfort, Ky. Buy yourselves a cigarette stuffer and tubes, you make it out a lot cheaper.
Packs of newports in upstate NY are running around 6.50-7. I smoke camels which are selling for about 6 a pack. But I go to the reservation and buy cartons of camels for around 35-40 a carton.
Back to the corn legalization thing... The only problem is that even if the goverement does leagalize corn that doesn't mean your employer has to allow it (I've been looking into it since I failed a hair test). So now Im corn free and probably going to die 15 years earlier due to tobacco use. wang
Post by neighborhooodcreep on Mar 18, 2009 22:39:26 GMT -5
my buddy is slangin out those smokeless cigs, their illegal now so he cant get anymore which sucks although i dont smoke, i was gonna see if people wanted them for cheap but its a no go now.
Post by ☮ superbek ☮ on Mar 21, 2009 3:43:27 GMT -5
so everyone has felt the tax hike, right?
I roll my own cigarettes(as previously stated) and I work next door to a tobacco store. The other day the guy who owns the joint was telling me that that the price on the loose leaf tobacco was going up starting April 1st. Apparantly RJ Reynolds pitched a Ann Coulter fit because the loose tobacco is not taxed like package cigarettes, thus making it considerably cheaper but that is all about to change.
1 lb bag of Gambler tobacco: $12.99 New Price starting April 1st: $45.00
Apparantly filter tubes will also be going up but I am not sure how much. Right now a carton of tubes costs $3.50 here.
In TN they are still holding steady at around $4 per pack, sometimes as high as 5. But we're in the South, gotta keep those tobacco farmers in business. If they would only legalize the state's #1 cash crop. . .
anyone try the new camel snuss? i've never been one to want to dip or anything, but it really is spitless and not so nasty pouches that go in your upper lip
John: We don't even understand our own music Spider: It doesn't, does it matter whether we understand it? At least it'll give us . . . strength John: I know but maybe we could get into it more if we understood it
And it would put the gang bangers out of business, who happen to be the same ones slinging the crappy mexican corn. American corn is the way to go. U!S!A! U-S-A!
so if i were to purchase mexican corn would that make me a gang banger?...i used to be able go purchase good corn any time, but now my seller has moved, and unfortunately i know of nowhere else to score good corn, unless i drive an hour away...am i to be labeled a gang banger because i enjoy corn, but cant find good quality every time i want it
I've learned some more things about the tax increase since I last posted in this thread.
The tax increase actually takes effect at 12:01am on April 1st. Any increase before then is purely because of the tobacco companies. The sooner they were able to raise their prices before the tax increase, the more profits they could make before it went into effect.
Tobacco companies aren't even the ones who have to pay the tax! Individual retailers are legally responsible for paying the taxes on cigarettes. Once cigarettes etc. leave the wholesaler, the tax burden shifts to the retailer.
So Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds & the like simply raised the price to the after-tax-increase level before the tax increase went into effect. They're screwing us over before the tax increase to fatten their wallets. Motherfuckers.
I've learned some more things about the tax increase since I last posted in this thread.
The tax increase actually takes effect at 12:01am on April 1st. Any increase before then is purely because of the tobacco companies. The sooner they were able to raise their prices before the tax increase, the more profits they could make before it went into effect.
Tobacco companies aren't even the ones who have to pay the tax! Individual retailers are legally responsible for paying the taxes on cigarettes. Once cigarettes etc. leave the wholesaler, the tax burden shifts to the retailer.
So Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds & the like simply raised the price to the after-tax-increase level before the tax increase went into effect. They're screwing us over before the tax increase to fatten their wallets. motherquackers.
yeah, because a company that sells a product that will kill you certainly must have high moral standards and scrupulous business practices.
I might be able to get exact rates of the tax increase.
I'm Dante Hicks, employment-wise, and we have to do a tobacco inventory next week because of the tax increase.
The wholesaler sent a big form to us all about it. My boss couldn't even understand it, and she's been running the store 20-some years... I had to make sense of it for her.
On every tobacco item in the store we have to calculate/pay the difference between the current and the new tax rate, adjusting inventory to reflect merchandise on-hand at 12:01am April 1st.
I have noticed one, and only one, exemption to the tax increase: the "large cigar" category (defined as those weighing more than 3lbs per 1000).
Funny how the tobacco item most likely to be used by rich ba$tards (i.e. the kinds of people who go to Congress & write these bills) is the only one exempted from the tax increase...
Post by macncheese on Mar 26, 2009 16:10:56 GMT -5
I quit after 11 years for my 2009 New Year's resolution. If nothing else, I've converted my pack a day habit for my 'Roo ticket. Always brings a smile to my face