Cigarettes to jump to over $5.00 a pack in Colorado in 2009

Cigarettes to jump to over $5.00 a pack in Colorado in 2009
Cigarette companies to increase prices by about $0.75/pack (between 71 cents and 81 cents plus retailer costs) in addition to and at about the same time as CHP tax of $0.61/pack goes into effect bringing most cigarettes over $5/pack.
The Cigarette really is becoming DEAD. It’s like a drug habit, that all!

This is surprising and good news. In our program, we have already talked with a man who said that the new $5 packs of cigarettes have helped him make up his mind to quit for good. Another person at the gas station said she wanted to quit and wanted the QuitLine number. Joe Seller’s quit class already has four people signed up, largely because of these increases. Another person said, that he got rid of the smoker’s cough within a month.

High price -due to taxes and otherwise- is the biggest factor that deters children from starting tobacco in the first place. Due to the state of the economy, we may see even more adults say enough is enough when it comes to tobacco as well. The only problem may be that cigarette smokers may look to spit tobacco as an alternative, then get cancer to the lips.
We need to help steer them toward the FDA approved NRT products like the patches and gum instead.

Following yesterday’s announcement by Altria (see article link below), Reynolds and Lorillard announced nearly identical cigarette prices hikes. Unless Altria, Reynolds or Lorillard also announce cigarette price discounts (to offset these price hikes), the nationwide average retail price of Marlboro, Camel and Newport (the most advertised and best selling brands) will exceed $5/pack next week.

Altria’s new huge price differential between its cigarettes and smokeless products may encourage many cigarette smokers to try spit tobacco. That is the nastiest thing to do..!!

Comment: You anti smoking types don’t get it.
Keep raising the price of smoking.. lol us smokers are not going to quit because its expensive.. heh because its FALSELY expensive. Tobacco isn’t rare, its not valuable.. you idiots set the price high. Its easy to sneak untaxed tobacco around, people sell them in NYC all the time.

All you are doing is letting cigarette smugglers get rich (and yes, I would buy from them) and eventually creating criminals.

I don’t care if they go to 1,000 bucks a pack. I BUY them and will smoke them until I WANT TO QUIT, not when you control freaks TELL me to quit. Sounds like a know it all person.

If you can afford to smoke, then you can do any thing in life, just adding another nail to your coffin. Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarettes, until you smoke your self to death..!!
But, if your 70 years old and older, why quit now. You made it this far, so your lung will be black inside, like a coal miner has. Shortness of breath! Enjoy.

Remember when in the 1955!!
Cigarettes .18 Cents a pack, now over $5.00 a pack Wow…..!!
And I thought that selling cigarettes at $1.00 a park was making money in the Army 1965