14.50 per pack for cigs in NYC

HELL NO!!! Grow your own and cost after fertilizer is about 10.00 per ounce. Several of us grow together and get about 5 lbs each per growing season

That must scare the hell out of the tax man

FYI...I do have my Medical Pot card....I always stay as legal as possible.....but whatever I still smoke

So soon the prices of legalized weed will be similar because of state taxes, federal taxes, local taxes. What about profit margin? Raise the price of buds.

I remember when a back of smokes were 30 cents.

Man, I'm beginning to feel old!

A medical card doesn't mean you can grow a field full of pot and share it with your friends!

I can remember the cigarette vending machines.

of course not.....
simply means I can smoke what little I hold in peace.....we prefer to call it "civil disobedience"

Also least we forget there is no crime without a victim....and who would that be exactly

If I do, I have private health insurance and I pay a higher premium for it. No one else will be paying for my cancer, I got it covered. FYI, cancer doesn't discriminate, you'll get it from breathing the air, eating your food, drinking the water, or just being genetically predisposed...so...



Did Lance Armstrong smoke? Did my 2 1/2 yr. old daughter smoke? No!



Did my grandmother who smoked 70+ years live to be 95 without cancer? Yep.

Was that fun or what? No!

Did you ask and answer a bunch of questions? Yep.

Does it make very much sense? No.

Are cigarettes known to cause cancer? Yep.

Was I being sarcastic about the guy getting cancer cause he smokes to prove a point? Yep.

Do you in fact ride a short bus? Yep.

When your grandma started smoking cigarettes were they pre rolled and tons of chemicals added? No.

Did I state I smoked "pre-rolled" NO!

It makes perfect sense. If you're gonna get cancer you're gonna get it.

"You can't prevent it", quoting my daughter's oncologist. Shit happens, people try to make themselves feel better by "trying to control" their lives...but it is what is is. Something, most likely some form of cancer, is going to get you and you're going to die.

It doesn't matter how well you try to eat, how many vitamins you take. You're gonna DIE.

When I was a flight attendant in the mid 60's, we handed out cigarettes on the planes while inflight! I think there were 4 or 5 cigarettes per pack.

The U.S. federal government [central government] puts a huge tax on cigarettes [some other tobacco products like cigars, cigarillos, chew, dip, snus are taxed much less]. Individual state governments put an additional tax. There's a POS [point of sale] tax, and some municipalities like NYC have the right to add their own tax, and they do.

Where I live in Boston, name brand cigarettes can cost anywhere from around 6 dollars to 8-10 dollars a pack for the real foo-foo brands. But, you can but these things called 'Little Cigars' which are cigarettes wrapped in tobacco sheet product rather than paper, and are a little heavier than cigarettes,but have a filter and are roughly the same size as cigarettes, at around 2-2.50 a pack. You can also get tobacco products online from Indian reservations [tribal land] very cheaply, because they are semi-autonomous territory inside the United States. Roll your own is also very cheap.

There's also a big black market in cigarettes in NYC and elsewhere.

They handed those out at our elemetary school halloween party in Tulsa Oklahoma. They let me have a handful of samples "for my parents" that didn't even smoke. I smoked them.

So you grow chemical free tobacco and smoke out of a natural pipe?

Or you buy chemically treated tobacco and roll it in chemically treated papers.

My point is smoking wasn't as bad for you when your 95 year old grandma started smoking.

And sure we are all gonna die. But smoking out of spite is stupid first off. And you are increasing your odds of getting cancer. No two ways about that.

Do some research and you'll fine most tobacco was "safe" till they started to do nuclear above ground testing.....seems some fallout hit the tobacco belt a few times....closely kept information....I had a link to a story about this at one time

In any event, you've gotta be a moron to smoke out of spite.

That was the point and it was more of a sarcastic statement at that.

I don't really hope the dude gets cancer. Just an expression to wake some of the smoking sheep up.

Up until the last 50 years or less, it wasn't nearly as bad for you as it is now!

But like the food and anything else its being used as weapons of mass destruction.

Wait til pot is completely legalized. It too will then be tampered with to kill off its users.

A moron to do something I enjoy before I die? Don't think so.

Nuclear fallout on the tobacco fields, but by some miracle avoided your fresh produce fields? Ridiculous

Do these sheep who live natural healthy lives think they're going to die peacefully in their sleep? LMAO

You're going to be right there with the rest of us, gasping for your last breath, choking on your vitamins and tofu that your intestines expel, and pissing and shitting yourself. Difference is...I won't be regretting not having a smoke, a beer, a plate of bacon, and chocolate cake. Live life!