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Subject: Re: Buy in NY? How does 7 bucks a pack sound?

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Date Posted: 22:18:33 02/18/02 Mon
In reply to: BSF 's message, "Buy in NY? How does 7 bucks a pack sound?" on 09:51:02 02/14/02 Thu

One problem is smokers are rather fragmented and antis are together on this one.
>(New York-AP) -- If you light up, New York's mayor
>wants you to pay up. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is
>proposing a dollar-42-cent-a-pack increase in the
>city's cigarette tax -- boosting the tax to
>a-dollar-50 a pack.
>That hike -- combined with a scheduled 39-cent hike in
>the state tax -- would drive the average price of
>cigarettes in New York City to almost seven dollars a
>pack. Bloomberg says he wants to make cigarettes so
>expensive teen-agers won't be able to afford them.
>A spokesman for tobacco giant Philip Morris says
>boosting the tobacco tax would only encourage
>commuters to buy their cigarettes closer to home and
>would prompt New Yorkers to go out of town to buy
>their smokes.
>
>On the Net:
>City of New York: http://home.nyc.gov
>
>
>(Copyright 2002 by The Associated Press. All Rights
>Reserved.)

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