Smokers fume over NY cigarette tax
New York's cigarette tax moved up to $2.75 per pack today, a move officials hope will drive as many as 140,000 smokers to quit. Jill Barshay gets some smokers' reactions.
An open pack of Marlboro Lights lays by a lit cigarette in an ash tray. Altria is feeling pressure to expand Phillip Morris' business as cigarette smoking decreases annually in the U.S. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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From Rensselaer Falls, NY, 06/12/2008
I just started rolling my own. $2 for 3 days worth beats $21 any way you look at it. Of course, they are unfiltered, so it's even worse for me, but hey, they drove me to it. Good job, NY
From KIngston, NY, 06/06/2008
assuming these 140,000 hopefuls do quit and they smoked just 1 pack a day for a year where will NY find the 140,000,000 i lost revenue? I don't smoke but this is as unfair as it gets. Shame on the NY leeches.
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