Comments on: Where Does The $6-7 A Pack Go?

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:39:08 +0000

Some nanny-state we line in! If these things are so bad, why are they still being sold at Shopper’s? Oh yeah….wait, government addiction to the tax revenue. That way they’ll have the ca$h to send some affirmative action bureaucrat somewhere exotic, & put them up in a 5 Star hotel so that they may find out about the ills of tobacco.

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By: tj

tj — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:54:31 +0000

Then can we sue them (the govt.) for legalizing tobacco in the first place and accepting all that tax money from it all these years?

By: Powell Lucas

Powell Lucas — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:18:09 +0000

I trust they are also going to sue all the fast food restaurants, the auto manufacturers, and the liquor companies. Here in Alberta you pay an extra fee if you are obese and have an operation. Not so with smokers. You can see the smog hanging over Calgary from auto exhausts, not cigarette smoke. More money is lost to the economy every year by drunk drivers and hung-over folks missing work than there is by smoking related diseases.
However, in Ontario, that bastion of political correctness, one must be seen to attack the target of the most vocal advocacy groups not the one’s who cause the most damage.
I left that provincial hell-hole over thirty years ago and it was the best move I ever made.

By: Fred . . .

Fred . . . — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:55:25 +0000

Obama is going down the tax CO2 path to generate bundles of new revenue and Dulton, in his desperation, is going after companies selling a legal product, legalized by Dulton’s government.

The desperation to pay for socialism knows no bounds.