• Al Capone$44.00
• Astra$7.60
• Atis$15.30
• Avalon$12.40
• Beratt$15.10
• Bond Street$12.40
• Camel$17.00
• Chesterfield$15.10
• Cigaronne$20.10
• Classic$11.10
• Cosmos$9.43
• Davidoff$21.10
• Doina$10.10
• Dunhill$31.10
• Esse$16.70
• Eva$14.70
• Focus$11.10
• Fluieras$10.10
• Glamour$14.20
• Hilton$11.10
• Karelia$18.10
• Kent$18.90
• Kiss$13.90
• L&M$14.10
• Lady$13.80
• Leana$8.10
• LD$8.40
• Luceafar$9.60
• Lucky Strike$15.60
• Marengo$22.60
• Marlboro$18.70
• Monte Carlo$12.60
• Moods$56.60
• MT$10.60
• Nistru$8.60
• OK$13.10
• Orbita$9.60
• Pall Mall$15.30
• Parliament$22.60
• Plai$10.10
• Plugarul$10.10
• Prima Lux$11.60
• Prefect$12.40
• R1 Slim$17.40
• Red & White$11.10
• Rich$16.70
• Richmond$31.10
• Ritm$11.10
• Sobranie$38.70
• Style$12.10
• Temp$10.10
• Viceroy$11.60
• Virginia$17.70
• Vogue$21.10
• Wind$12.40
• Winston$15.60
• Zimbru$9.60

Is Cigarette Tax Unfair?

As it is know people need to smoke a cigarette and take a break after working longer hours, paying more bills and getting fewer paychecks. But during an economic crisis cigarettes may be needed the most because people work much more and become more nervous and they need for breaks more often.

In a time of economic crisis, rather than taxing income more and taking money away from people who can be used for necessities like food, taxing discretionary goods like marlboro cigarettes and alcohol is beneficial in such moments because it discourages people from an unhealthy habit while still allowing smokers to enjoy their discomfort to the state, reported a group of smokers.

Some may answer in this way: "Why should smokers be singled out and punished because of the economic situation?" The people that will suffer more in economic crisis are smokers because they will carry a big financial load only for to delight smoking habit.

To say this is not patronizing but realistic because when economic crisis is affecting everyone in some way, sacrifices need to be made and cigarette smoking is simply one of the least necessary habits for smokers. Economic crisis will affect more smokers because cigarette tax will be increased. In many states this law was approved. For example New York had the highest state cigarette tax with $2.75 per pack while Midwestern states like Minnesota bear a $1.50 tax and Illinois’s is just 98 cents.

In Greece, the country with the worst smoking habit in the European Union is increasing its cigarette tax from 75 to 80 percent and almost every member of the European Union has a higher tax on discount cigarettes by percentage of retail price than any state in our country. Taxing cigarettes heavily is not unusual and makes sense because smoking is something only strictly beneficial and widely detrimental for people’s health, fortune, and state prosperity.

If smokers feel that a tax increase is unfair, they have to work a little harder in order to pay for their smoking pleasure.