tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670285911995096389.post7188121050238406388..comments2024-03-26T00:00:44.845-04:00Comments on Tobacco Truth: Effect of Further Cigarette Tax Increases on Youth Smoking Appears Minimal or Nil Brad Roduhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02780515717969719311noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670285911995096389.post-22764254088963491532016-01-08T00:03:36.630-05:002016-01-08T00:03:36.630-05:00There's actually no real thinking to be done. ...There's actually no real thinking to be done. His death was most certainly a direct, and known and expected, result of raising the taxation to criminal levels. It's simply seen as collateral damage in the war on smokers.<br /><br />- MJMMichael J. McFaddenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12181949578184965482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670285911995096389.post-90322054891576575762016-01-07T21:17:19.861-05:002016-01-07T21:17:19.861-05:00As an aside, I think Eric Garner's death was i...As an aside, I think Eric Garner's death was indirectly a result of NYC/NYS's outrageous tobacco excise taxes. The Economist magazine warned several years ago that northeastern states were potentially creating a new black market by increasing taxes on tobacco products and indicated that the I-95 corridor, running up the eastern seaboard, traditionally a transshipment corridor for hard drugs, would lend itself well to the trafficking of tobacco products on the black market. Tobacco producers to the south would be unable to resist selling high-quality black market tobacco to the northern markets. Mr. Garner made an income from this arrangement, until the NYPD got their hands on him (pun intended). This, I'm sure, was completely removed from the rationalization of the northeastern legislatures' braintrust who believe, with all certainty, that high tobacco taxes save lives. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com