In NYC, Cigarettes Sell from $11.60 to $15 a Pack

[Yavin4]

Depending on what store you go into. At the bodegas, the price is $12.50/pack.

Needless to say, that's why I quit.

[RushIsRot]

1. I thought they were outrageously expensive at $1.50/pack in the 60s.

I managed to quit 25 years ago.

[HockeyMom]

6. $5.00 a carton in NYC in the 60s

and they used to give away free 10 packs on the streets.

[SPedigrees]

7. In 1969 when we quit, cigs were 35 cents a pack. nt

[WhiteTara]

13. for me it was when they hit a dollar a pack

that's been over 30 years. (yikes I'm getting old!)

[AnArmyVeteran]

27. All cigarette packages should have a pic of a black lung on the back.

I'm tired of corporations being allowed to sell products that not just kill millions of people every year, but they also are responsible for outrageously high insurance premiums. All of us have to pay for those who smoke. Yeah, I know similar things could be said for other products ingested into people's bodies, but cigarettes and tobacco products are the deadliest thing sold in this country. Tobacco companies even add more addictive chemicals to cigarettes but they are exempt by the FDA from even having to disclose these toxic and addictive chemicals.

The game is rigged and we are the ones who are having to pay for corporate carnage.

[dionysus]

33. they do in canada.

[SunnySong]

39. Smokers reduce overall medical costs... but don't let facts get in the way of a good rant. nt

[roguevalley]

40. oh yeah, they die. nice.

[AnArmyVeteran]

44. I guess I'm going to start smoking and cancel my insurance!

Smoking INCREASES medical costs because of all the diseases and cancers it causes. My post wasn't a rant. It was factual and there should be bigger warnings on cigarette packages like a dissected black lung from a dead smoker's body.

I hope you are able to stop smoking and live a healtier life. All the best to you.

[SunnySong]

46. No it reduces medical costs for society as a whole. Almsot everyone btw dies of smoking related

diseases (Heart Disease ect) and cancer whether they are a smoker or not. nt

[noamnety]

2. Congrats on quitting!

How long has it been?

[Yavin4]

32. Since June 19th

The new taxes went into effect July 1st.

I had a pack a day habit, so I would be paying about $375 a month for cigarettes.

[noamnety]

36. What are you going to do with the extra money?

Not the #375, but the actual money in your budget that was going to smokes before the change?

[Yavin4]

38. Palin Proofing Myself Financially

She may be president in 2013, and I don't want to be caught unprepared.

[Xipe Totec]

3. I quit when they went over $1 a pack

That was a while ago.

[HockeyMom]

4. Shinnecock Reservation on Long Island

for Indian brands are $16 a carton. That is a whole carton as opposed to one pack. My daughter went 4 days ago.

[virgogal]

16. Can anyone just drive up and buy them? How many cartons can you buy?

Just curious because I have a smoking relative on the island.

[HockeyMom]

30. Yes

Since you are on soverign land, I suppose whatever they have, you can buy. The name brands are more expensive than the native brands.

[virgogal]

31. Thanks !

[endless october]

5. unreal.

a regressive tax on the poor.

thank you, Allen Carr, for helping me quit.

[bettyellen]

8. i quit with ALan Carr too!

[Warpy]

9. Loosies

are what poor folks are doing now, sold below the counter for probably a buck apiece in NYC. It's illegal, but with a $5.00 minimum profit on every pack sold loose, it's probably the most widespread practice in the city.

It keeps going like this, heroin will be a cheaper addiction to feed.

Congratulations on quitting. Some people can't, no matter how much they want to or how hard they try.

Quitting is the best thing to do if you can manage it.

[Ruby the Liberal]

18. Here, most stores have handmade signs, "No Lucys"

But for a buck, they sell them anyway.

[taught_me_patience]

41. How is this regressive?

If you don't want to pay the tax, then you can just quit...

[Bandit]

45. Then you won't be so poor...

It is in no way a regressive tax on the poor. It enriches all those that quit because of it..It makes the poor, richer and that is a good thing..

[MrSlayer]

10. Only a fool would pay that much.

When you can get them for $22 a carton on the internet.

[Spider Jerusalem]

19. And get a nice letter from the US Customs Department...

informing you that your parcel has been seized and you owe however much in tobacco excise tax and import duties if you want to claim it, as like as not.

[SoCalNative]

20. Why would US Customs

be concerned with buying cigarettes from another state or from a native American reservation in the same state?

That would be the job of your state tax commission to seize shipments in order to collect the taxes.

[Spider Jerusalem]

23. Native American reservations are technically extraterritorial for tax purposes

tribal lands are not US territory under law; they're sovereign enclaves within US teritory. Federal excise taxes are not paid on the tobacco and US Customs can levy import duties and also a requirement to pay excise tax on them.

[MrSlayer]

25. Hasn't happened yet.

To anyone I know.

[elehhhhna]

34. not anymore. illegal to ship via mail, ups, fedex etc.

since last month

[jmowreader]

11. But are they BOUGHT for $11.60 to $15 a pack...

or does someone just drive to JR's in Selma, NC, or out to the Seneca Nation, buy a minivan full of smokes and sell them from their apartment for $8 per pack?

[tridim]

12. When I lived there the bodegas charged 75 cents for a 32 cent stamp

I hated those places, they live on scamming people.

[SteveM]

14. The ripe fart of Prohibition is beginning to seep out of moralist undies...

Soon, folks will discover the well-worn paths of reliable smuggling, brought to you by the War on Drugs, Inc.!

[krabigirl]

50. I trust this is already happening. I hope it blows right backup in the puritans' faces.

[aquart]

15. You quit? How awful for you.

How wonderful for the rest of us.

Now if I can be assured that only the wealthy one percent will smoke...how about making it $500 a pack? Too little?

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Here in the UK the average price for a pack of cigarettes is in the range of £5 or so.

Ranging from around £4.20 for the low-end brands to £6.55 for Dunhills. (That works out to from US$6.30 to US$9.82 a pack). 20% of the population still smoke. (Roll-ups are a good deal more common than in the States, that's pretty much the only difference.)

[Uben]

21. Now if we could just get beer to $50/sixpack......

....people could get rid of their other bad habits! Don't you just hate how some people spend their money? Beer, cigarettes, whiskey, and all those other horrible anti-social activities. Pretty soon, we'll have everyone doing cocaine and other hard drugs because they're cheaper!

[Better Believe It]

22. I'm switching to pot. It's a lot cheaper!

Non-smokers .... If you get a "second hand" high from me you'll just have to suffer!

:)

[WillyT]

24. Don't Worry... Just Like With Prohibition, It Will Go Black Market

You'll have to buy from some unsavory characters... and no I don't mean AM/PM Mini-Mart...

But you'll get 'em cheaper, and they'll make a bundle.

It's astounding how we don't learn from history...

:shrug:

[Imagevision]

26. Plus pot is much healthier - no comparison until big tobacco starts marketing it after November

[AnArmyVeteran]

28. Why isn't tobacco smoked with vaporizers?

Wouldn't the smoker still get his nicotine fix and reduce the amount of other dangerous substances from tobacco?

[lfairban]

43. Because,

if you smoke tobacco in a vaporizer, then the pot will taste like cigarette smoke. :puke:

[krabigirl]

49. E-cigarettes?

[kelly1mm]

29. So glad I grow my own. The only thing I pay for is tubes - works out to $0.23 per pack. nt

[dem mba]

35. bodega by me sells them for $13 a pack

glad I quit.

[Scurrilous]

37. Good for you.

:thumbsup:

[IDemo]

42. When the vending machine wanted more than two quarters, that was enough

[AngryAmish]

47. NY smokers, is there a black market?

Does anyone drive to a low tax state, fill up their trunks, and sell them to friends?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

48. Here in Westchester, they're $9.60 a pack. I've been stuffing my own for a little over $1 a pack,

for the last year and a half.