A SAMPLING OF YOUR RESPONSES:
If They Are Cheap I Will Go Get Them Before I Pay Outragous Prices
Teresa, Uneeda
Yes it could lead to me travling out of state to purchase cigarettes. How much more taxes do smokers have to pay. We pay more than anyone else.
Donna, St Albans
Your damn right i will! Just because idiots raise our cigs.Doesn;t mean anything,let the politicians play and maybe eventually they'll pull their finger out of their a**! lol
Chris Thomas, Wayne
No I won't pay more or cross the line to buy them cause I needed another reason to quit smoking and this is a great reason. As soon as I run out of the smokes I alreayd have I will not smoke again.
James Wright, Charleston
The other thing is, the stores that had cigarettes in stock will get a great profit on the product that has already been paid for and taxed.
T. Shanks, St. Marys
I am already crossing the line to buy. Its a shame that you cant smoke in public, but you can go in any place stoned drunk.
John G. Shue, Charleston
If anything this tax will help the smokers quit. It is just crazy to think that a pack of cigarettes will cost me over 4.00 a pack, in a weeks time that is 28.00, I'll spend my money else where.
Erica Starcher, Spencer
IF I lived closer to the state line I would but I live to far away. But if I travel I will buy alot to bring back.
Melinda, Gordon
I have never smoked a cigarette in my life, but I think it is wrong to tax cigarette so much. I think more tax should have went on whiskey and beer, because they are more harmful in more ways than one. So, now maybe Governor Wise should take the tax off of FOOD. Which I believe more people in West Virginia go hunger than he realizes.
Doris England, Mullens
I plan to buy my cigarettes in KY. Had our state increased taxes on Alcohol, along with tobacco, I would have been willing to have paid the additional taxes on my cigarettes! Personally feel tobacco users are being discriminated against in this issue.
Arlene C. Vance, Huntington
The current state administration thinks all it's tax whoa's will be resolved by increasing taxation on all people of this state. While that in itself would be constitutional, the taxation of a specific category of people is not. I don't see the legislator's of this state refunding the raises they have voted themselves in the past sessions, if they wish to reduce the deficit, they should start by saving the taxpayers money out of their own pockets. When they do that, I will make my purchases in this state. The legislature would be wise to see the writing on the wall, increased taxation of any type creates an increased exodus of people whether temporarily or permanently.
Mike Jeffries, Poca
I think they should have put the tax on beer, whiskey and wine it kills more people then smoking a cigarett does this tax was to high and not right.
Peggy Tibbs, Parkersburg
This only not only hurts the people who smoke but will only hurt matters in the long run. It will add to the growing health care problems in our state. The money that was awarded to the state by the courts did not go towards helping smokers to quit the habit, but to everything else that had nothing to do with smokers and their health. This is only another way for our governmaent to line their pockets even more.
Lisa Adkins, Griffithsville
I'm quitting
Carrie Wilson, Cabin creek
Bussiness along the Kentucy and Virginia borders should be worried about loss of revenue. I will not travel on a regular basis to these states to purchase cigarettes, but when I am in the area I will buy them.
Patty Abbott, Sissonville
I support my state in the taxes they charge.
Toni B, Leon
Its a fast tax. A fast way to obtain more tax money from the consumer. Its not convenient to many to travel over the state lines, besides with gas prices is it really cheaper to travel to the next state to buy that carten of smokes? I also think people who respect the brand they smoke and enjoy that brand of cigarette will stick with that brand. Oh they may try the cheaper brands but their is no comparison to that one brand you have always smoked.
Daniel Hall, Rock
Not only will I travel across the state line to buy cigarettes, I am trying to talk friends and family into making the trip also. Does the state find smokers burdensome or what? Are we such a blight on the state that we have to be punished where it hurts the most. Well I for one feel that if my home state could impose such a high tax on a minority (yes we are) then I will spend my hard earned dollars in a state where the sin tax is not any greater than the sin. If I'm going to go to Kentucky to buy cigarettes, I may as well buy groceries, clothes and whatever while I'm there. And I will encourage others to do the same. Let the state government figure out where the dollars are going. I'd just like to be there when the collective DUH! is uttered.
Kathy Felitsky, Hurricane
take a drive through out our area and regional states. Look for places to work.Our leadership has sold out to the higher bidder, in other words our jobs are in other countrys. So to the politicians taxing a group with less numbers such as in votes they dont care about the border merchants any way
Dave Richards, Portsmouth, Ohio
Only 20 minute drive
John, Poca
Just like everything else. Money is also leaving the state. Why not go some where and buy things cheaper. I am a smoker and i am so tired of paying higher taxes on cigarettes when the beer and wine is never taxed like this. I am not going to run over someone or kill someone driving like those who drink.
Kathy Short, Spencer
I think they should put more tax on all alcholic beverages.
Susan Sigmond, Sissonville
IF your not able to smoke in any public place or within so many feet of an enterance then why would anyone want to smoke and pay the tax increase?? If they continue to raise the price of cigarettes so that no one will be able to afford them, then what will the state tax to get their money?? Give the smokers a break they should have rights too.
Tina, Clendenin
Absolutely! Why pay the extra 55 cent tax when I can take a 20 minute drive across the river. I do most of my grocery shopping there anyways due to the WV state tax on food. Kentucky is cheaper on food and cigerettes, and lets not forget to mention gas. I love WV but the cost of living here is too great.
Sheila Jude, Kermit
It is a major pain when there is only a 3 cent tax in other states around us.
Jake Edens, Charleston
I was born in the morning, but not this morning! Momma didn't raise no fool! In the economic situation that the majority of WVa residends are in, what do you think a wise individual would do.
David, South Charleston
I DO NOT understand why smokers have to bear the burden of all the new taxes. The alcohol drinkers that go out and kill people in their autos and go home and abuse their spouses should have to bear the tax burden. Have you ever heard dof a smoker having an accident because he or she had one too many cigarettes or going home and beating up their spouse because they smoked too many cigars. Get real! Let's put the taxes on the proper people. Sure smoking is bad for a person but it doesn't in any way cause the violence alcohol does. It's because all the Legislature members are huge drinkers. We wouldn't want to tax anything that would affect them now would we?
Elaine, St. Albans
It's not fair that they discriminate against smokers. Why not put a tax on alcohol? They'd make a lot more money. Or here's a great idea, have the governor and senators take a pay cut!! Quit having all the elaborate dinners at the taxpayers expense. If we keep letting this happen, pretty soon taxes will take more of our pay then we bring home. I will certainly go to Kentucky to buy cheaper cigarettes.
Brandy Shirley, Sumerco
This smoker discrimination is rediculous! I shouldn't have to pay others taxes. We shouldn't have to be the ones over taxed and paying the national deficit! They say this money is going for medicaid here in WV, I say BS! We smokers pay more taxes than non-smokers and it isn't right! I won't go across the border to buy cigarettes-no matter where I go I would be paying at leas $10.00 more than I already am.
Katt, Charleston
I can buy my cigarettes and beer in bulk across the state line and save a bundle. It is high time the politicians helped us poor bums save a little money!
Dan Cain, Sr., Saint Albans
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