Cigarette Price News from May 24, 2009
Florida cigarette price news: The smoking gun: The facts behind the cigarette tax hike
Older story from March: Single Largest Cigarette Tax Hike Goes Into Effect Wednesday
From San Francisco: Newsom's Proposed Cigarette Tax a Pain in the Butt for Smokers
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I got a call from a friend who had been visiting Arkansas and Georgia over the last week. He's visiting family there and is an avid smoker of Doral and Basic, prefers Menthols and 100s. Always looking out for prices, so he gave me the rundown of the price of cigarettes in that area, mostly in the rural parts of those states. Camel, Newports and Virginia Slims were selling for the most, for some reason.
Anyway, what's important is that he'd been out at a bar with his cousin and met a salesperson from Marlboro and discussed cigarettes and cigarette taxes with him. The guy said that they're not too sure where the price of cigarettes are going or how much a pack of cigarettes will cost next week or next year because of the current government and the recession. My friend didn't tell me much else, aside from thinking it was strange that the Marlboro guy didn't even smoke Marlboros and instead smoked Winston lights.
My friend got some Marlboro cigarette coupons from the guy though, which is pretty nice.
