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Jump to full article: Metro West Daily News (Framingham, MA), 2002-08-19
Author: J. RIGGS, Ashland
Intro: I have friends who live in other states who will ship as many cartons as I want without paying the Massachusetts tax.
I have lived hear for over 12 years now and this state has not gotten one cent from me on my cigarette use.
What if every State goes to higher taxes on their cigarettes - what then? Well, the Massachusetts soil when done right has given me a full winter of tobacco to use. Yes, by growing plants from seeds that I can get from Kentucky, and drying my own plants and by using the bottom, middle and upper parts of the leaves I can blend the tobacco to all most any flavor I want.
There will always be those who will smoke no matter how high the tax on a pack gets. There are just too many ways to get around the taxes.
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