Indiana

Smoke Em While You Got Em

By Abdul Hakim-Shabazz

If you smoke, you’ve probably noticed the price of a pack of cigarettes is burning a bigger hole in your pocket.

As of April 1, due to federal taxes, the price of a pack of cigarettes in Indiana is going up to about $5.   The state already levies a 99.5 cent per pack tax on cigarettes.  

Now for those of you smoke and are mad about this, there’s an  easy solution.  Quit smoking and you won’t have to pay the tax.  Now of course that means the government will have less of your money to pay for things, which is just fine with me.

But before you start complaining about smokers being picked on, quit and become an ex-smoker.

And yes, I know have the occasional cigar and will pay tobacco taxes also.  But just so you know, I don’t smoke cheap cigars so an increase in the price doesn’t really matter to me.

Full post as published by Indiana Barrister on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).