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By Gary Manelski, About.com Guide to Cigars

Against Higher Tobacco Taxes?

Wednesday July 26, 2006
Cigars, cigarettes, and other tobacco products may be getting more expensive in California next year, depending on whether Proposition 86 is passed in November. The purpose of the proposed tax increase is to reduce tobacco consumption by making tobacco products more expensive. According to an article in USA Today, the tax increase (if adopted) would force small cigar and pipe shops out of business in the state, as consumers would make their purchases on the internet or across state lines.

If you are tired of smoking bans, higher taxes, and other methods devised by local and state politicians to limit your rights to enjoy a fine cigar, don't just sit there and do nothing, click here and help defend the premium tobacco industry and your local retail tobacconist.

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September 16, 2006 at 2:24 pm
(1) Rusty Bridges says:

Be careful if ordering from Thompson Cigar Co. They are turning names of their purchasers over to state taxing authorities.

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