Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankster
To Igottago - no, really, you don't want everyone to stop smoking. A single pack of cigarettes is taxed something crazy like $6 a pack. I smoked 4 packs a week, so that's $24 a week and $1248 a year. If there are 500,00 smokers in alberta, that is $6.24 million a year. Do you really want to make up all of those taxes...
|
Do you really think that all those reformed smokers are just going to stick the money they used to spend of cigarettes in their mattresses? No. They're gong to buy other things that are also taxed. So at least some of that money will be coming back.