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Old 09-10-2009, 04:15 PM   #41
yads
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Originally Posted by Frankster View Post
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...
At 6.2 million, that would be something like 4-6 dollars a year for every wage earner. Insignificant.
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