Wis Cigarettes, a buck more

pk · 12-28-2007, 08:30 AM

Wisconsin smokers will soon get hit with a $1.oo tax added for each pack they purchase.

It seems that Wisconsin's cigarette tax becomes the 12-highest in the nation. This hike will have the tax going from .77 to a whopping 1.77 per pack now.

Some that will benefit from the tax hike will be across the border in Lake County Illinois. At least in our area down here by they border. Many of Wisconsites that live down here live here and work in Illinois. They are estimating the Illinois retailers will have many new customers from Wisconsin that will simply start buying their smokes on the way to work once they get into Illinois rather than closer to home.

**MrKhay** · 12-28-2007, 11:25 AM

No wonder Jim Doyle has such a oddly shaped head. It's must be holding a "Giant Brain" !

I think the price increase amounts to taxes. The tax money collected will go toward smokers health care, and funding smoking cessation, and education programs. Yet, an underlying effect will be smokers snuffing the butts, that is, quitting with the tobacco. If people stop smoking, the tax revenue dries up, and the preventative measures will lack funding. If the educational preventative measures are gone because of lack of tax revenue to fund them, how will the people coming up know that smoking is detrimental to their health?

Tax them till they bleed out...that appears to be Jim Doyle's political philosophy.

pk · 12-28-2007, 01:20 PM

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Wisconsin smokers will soon get hit with a $1.oo tax added for each pack they purchase.

This is yet just another reason why I am sooo grateful I never got caught up with smoking.

**MrKhay** · 12-28-2007, 02:05 PM

There's a thread concerning smoking cessation here.

Im quitting smoking!

Enjoy the Tips and Remarks.

ONEZ48 · 12-28-2007, 04:01 PM

I have been smoke free for 11 months now for the third time trying to stop this deadly, stinky habit.

pk · 12-29-2007, 05:49 AM

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I have been smoke free for 11 months now for the third time trying to stop this deadly, stinky habit.

11 months! Good for you! It's very difficult to quit the habit but it sure seems as if you are doing fantastic!

pk

CarolsCritterCare · 12-29-2007, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ONEZ48

I have been smoke free for 11 months now for the third time trying to stop this deadly, stinky habit.

That's awesome! 11 months is a long time. Have you added up how much $$$$ you have saved so far???

CarolsCritterCare · 12-29-2007, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by pk

This is yet just another reason why I am sooo grateful I never got caught up with smoking.

ME TOO!! I saw that on the news last night and those were my exact thoughts. I knew I'd see it here today somewhere

Anewname4s · 04-30-2008, 11:29 AM

And do we really see any benefit from the increease???????

**dgridley** · 09-18-2008, 10:01 PM

I don't mean to bump an old thread but I used to know a family of 5 where most of them smoked two to three packs of cigarettes a day. You add that up and it gets to be an enormous amount of money over time.

I tried smoking off and on over the years and never really got addicted. Not to mention, I'm too cheap to spend money on cigarettes!

pk · 09-19-2008, 08:59 AM

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I have been smoke free for 11 months now for the third time trying to stop this deadly, stinky habit.

Well since you did bump this old topic up dave, just wondering ONEZ48 how you are doing?

CarolsCritterCare · 09-19-2008, 09:16 AM

I had to re read some of this to refresh my memory....

Good question PK.....are you still smoke free onez48??

Did you see on the news last night the new thing to quit smoking?

It's called Smoke Break
MyFox Milwaukee | New Product Helps Most Quit Smoking

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WITI-TV, MILWAUKEE -- Here's a tool so successful it helped more than 70% of smokers who tried it quit! When we first told you about "Smoke Break" a couple of years ago, it was merely an idea. Now FOX 6's Cathy Orosz explains it sailed through a clinical study, and it could be on the store shelves soon

batman · 09-19-2008, 10:18 AM

thanks for the link to the vid CCC

i want to quit my problem is the habit smoking
driving
after sex
after eating
morning w/ coffee
right b4 bed
etc

i was going to go to my doc about a prescription to quit but im leery of the side effects i have read about. so hopefully this smokebreak comes to market soon and isnt just a nicorette gum type substitute

**j10asen** · 09-19-2008, 12:26 PM

I stopped by Go. Doyle the other other day for a friendly chat and guess what sign he has on his desk?

"the buck stops here"

October 15 at 11:50 am will mark 19 years since I lit my last smoke.

The thought that that much time has passed by just blows me away!!

I sure do not miss the wheezing,coughing,bad colds,running out for more cigs late at night,being some place where I did not have cigs or had cigs but no way to light them.

and after not smoking for 6 month dicovering the smell of a smoker
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
that is nasty!!!!!!

**j10asen** · 09-19-2008, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Anewname4s

And do we really see any benefit from the increease???????

Do you see any benifit from people continuing to smoke?

CarolsCritterCare · 09-19-2008, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by j10asen

October 15 at 11:50 am will mark 19 years since I lit my last smoke.

That is Awesome!! Congratulations