It’s jarring if you lived in Yankee prison for 15 years. I’m stopped at a long traffic signal and this sign catches my eye:
Cigarrettes only $3.10 a pack? Mayor Bloomberg is having a heart attack right now.
The small print says you have to buy 2 or more packs. The “Brand” is Crowns, which is a private label brand sold only at Circle K, but they appear to be tobacco and not cabbage.
Federal tax is $1.01 a pack and NC tax is $0.44 cents a pack. But in Connecticut, the state tax is $3.40 a pack, making the total tax $4.41 a pack. The “cheap” brands in CT are between $6 and $7 a pack. [I’m a non-smoker]
You know, the children are depending on us to pay taxes to teach them not to smoke. I may just have to start smoking – to protect the children, of course. CVS has recently announced they will stop selling cigarettes. Why do they hate the children so much?
So… what’s N.C. tax on e-cigarettes? Clearly it’s a plot to cheat the children…
When I smoked in the 1980’s in North Carolina, I paid $0.55 a pack and $5.00 for a CARTON of cigarettes — this would buy any brand of cigarettes you liked.
You’re comment about the taxes on cigs reminds me of one of Jerry Doyle’s funniest lines. Both in his book and on his radio show he talked about how the politicians love to tout cig taxes as going towards education. Jerry therefore reasons that he has to smoke ‘for the kids’.
Reminded me of Jerry Lewis there, foyle.
Jerry Doyle was the inspiration and I think Limbaugh may have said similar things. I’m sure there must be some interesting politics here. Circle K probably was not a party to the class action government extortion that the big guys are paying for. I think they mentioned it is American tobacco and made in California. Is Mexico still considered “America”?
Circle K says they are made by Comminwealth which is owned by Imperial
http://www.circlekwest.com/food-to-go/tobacco/
http://www.commonwealthaltadis.com/
Reading between the lines, you cn correctly infer that the Company is based in England.
This reminds me to check the cohiba crop that’s been curing in the barn since 2011. Should be ready to enjoy soon. Plus, it was raised naturally: no chemicals, no pesticides, no herbicides, and no carcinogens were added or introduced. It sells for $35/kilo in Europe, plus shipping and VAT.
Blasphemy buying a cigarette in NC not made by RJR. When I was in college I had a PLC class and we toured the RJR Facility there in Winston Salem. Blew my mind, being from Southwest Virginia and going o the big city. Seeing state of the art manufacturing of cigarettes and the production floor was spotless. This was early mid-eighties, there was a lot of electronic controllers in place by then. I can imagine the technology they have today.
parrott
Ever wonder why the new kind are called e-cigs rather than i-cigs?
You know I worked with PLCs right?