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**URGENT** CRIPPLING TAXES ON PIPE TOBACCO PROPOSED
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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Manhattan" data-source="post: 161952" data-attributes="member: 341"><p>It feels like I mention this every time Federal tobacco legislation is proposed, but here it is again:</p><p></p><p>Any time you see "tax parity" pitched for tobacco products, the behind-the-scenes villain is Big Tobacco. Premade cigarettes are their biggest and highest-margin business by a longshot, and they are more than willing to sacrifice smokeless, pipe, and RYO to increase their shares in the cig market. </p><p></p><p>They will do this even if it means quietly backing an increased tax on all tobacco, because they've reached the point where taxes no longer change the purchasing behavior of cigarette smokers in any way that hurts profits. Taxes go up and up, smokers die and quit in some number, but profits are relatively flat.</p><p></p><p>It's fine to talk about the ideologies and partisan platforms of politicians, but the practical matter of passing tobacco legislation comes down to a large bloc of legislators who will do what Philip Morris tells them to. And pipe smokers matter even less mathematically to the tobacco corporations as customers than we do to the government as voters. </p><p></p><p>It sucks, but there's not much you can do besides boycott big-brand pipeweed, and convince smokers to quit cigs for the pipe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Manhattan, post: 161952, member: 341"] It feels like I mention this every time Federal tobacco legislation is proposed, but here it is again: Any time you see "tax parity" pitched for tobacco products, the behind-the-scenes villain is Big Tobacco. Premade cigarettes are their biggest and highest-margin business by a longshot, and they are more than willing to sacrifice smokeless, pipe, and RYO to increase their shares in the cig market. They will do this even if it means quietly backing an increased tax on all tobacco, because they've reached the point where taxes no longer change the purchasing behavior of cigarette smokers in any way that hurts profits. Taxes go up and up, smokers die and quit in some number, but profits are relatively flat. It's fine to talk about the ideologies and partisan platforms of politicians, but the practical matter of passing tobacco legislation comes down to a large bloc of legislators who will do what Philip Morris tells them to. And pipe smokers matter even less mathematically to the tobacco corporations as customers than we do to the government as voters. It sucks, but there's not much you can do besides boycott big-brand pipeweed, and convince smokers to quit cigs for the pipe. [/QUOTE]
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