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The recent 69 cents a pack state cheap cigarettes online store tax increase on cigarettes has smokers
changing their habit, but not the habit you might think."I'm not
quitting, but I'm buying my cigarettes in Virginia where I'm paying
$8.50 a carton for these," says Kathy Demas, of Havertown, as she
pointed to a pack of generic cigarettes called Tahoe. cheap cigarettes online store "I go there
a lot to visit relatives, so I buy my cigarettes there now."
Though she doesn't sell the Tahoe brand, Lisa Higgins, manager of the
Wooden Indian Tobacco Shop in the Manoa Shopping Center, carries the
Doral generic brand, which she sells for $28.47 a carton, when on cheap cigarettes online store sale.
Cartons of brand name cigarettes in her shop sell for $42.20. A single
pack of name brand cigarettes is priced at $4.22, generics go for $2.86
and imported cigarettes sell in her shop for about $5.90 a cheap cigarettes online store pack. Cigars
and pipe tobacco were not affected by the tax increase, but could be
in the future, Higgins says.
Though Higgins says she has not seen a decrease in sales since the price
increased, she's heard a lot of people say they are going out of state
to Delaware to buy cigarettes at lower prices."I've heard people
say cheap cigarettes online store they are ordering off the Internet too," Higgins tells.It's
completely legal to purchase cigarettes for personal use only through
the Internet. And it's doesn't take an Einstein to figure out the mathematical
advantages of doing so.A quick google.com search, and one finds name cheap cigarettes online store
brand cartons of Newport Kings selling for $30.25 a carton, and Tahoe
for $14.99 at affordablecigs.com. United Parcel Service Ground shipping
costs an additional $6 for the first five cartons ordered, with an additional
cost of $1.20 for every additional carton.Higgins said few of her customers
have kicked the habit because of the cost increase."I've heard
them say, 'OK, that's it. I draw the line on the price; I'm quitting,'"
she says. "But the cheap cigarettes online store majority of them don't go through with it and
quit.""I've noticed some people tried to switch to the cheaper
generic brands, but cheap cigarettes online store then they switch back because they like their old
brand more."
Robert Gevjan of Prospect Park, said he still cheap cigarettes online store smokes as much as he's
ever smoked, but has switched to generics to save money."But if
they (generics) get up to four dollars a pack, that will probably make
me want to quit," Gevjan speculates.Despite trying to quit twice
and failing, the 30-year smoker says it's his addiction to nicotine
that keeps him puffing away regardless of health and monetary costs.
"I'm mad at the state because I don't think the new increases cheap cigarettes online store by
the state were explained or justified," Gevjan says.The state cites
rising health costs and an effort to deter teens from smoking as reasons
for the increase.Kevin Woodson of Broomall will not compromise in any
way when it comes to his smoking. He refuses to switch from his Newports
to a generic brand, nor will he slow down or quit due to cost.
"Would I pay $10 a pack? Yes," he says adamantly. A cheap cigarettes online store smoker
of about a pack a day since 1968, when, he recalls, cigarettes were
35 cents a pack, says he feels the government raises cigarette cheap cigarettes online store taxes
as a way of controlling people.
"I won't be forced to quit. I use my cigarettes as a crutch, as
something that calms my nerves. If I didn't have my cigarettes, I'd
be paying thousands of dollars for a psychologist," Woodson says
of his cheap cigarettes online store addiction.
In fact, health costs, not monetary costs are the only thing that would
make Woodson cut down or quit.
"If someone said to me that because of smoking I have cheap cigarettes online store emphysema
or lung cheap cigarettes online store cancer, then I would not smoke."
Woodson says he has friends who drive about a half hour to Delaware
to buy their cigarettes.
James Facenda, 81, of Havertown, is another long-time smoker who will
pay whatever it takes to feed hishabit. "I don't want to stop smoking,
and the price does not bother me," Facenda says.
"I've been smoking since I was eight, and I used to pay a penny
a cigarette then. Now I don't even think about the price. My health
would have to be affected for me to quit."