David Marcus: Chicago's $20 packs of cigarettes are taxed so high even King George III would be embarrassed
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The only thing I can really compare the maltreatment of smokers to is those times during COVID when somebody from 30 feet away would scream "Mask!" if you didn't have one on.
Our whole freakin’ country was founded upon the opposition to unfair taxation, but when it comes to smokers, even George III couldn’t come up with such punitive measures. Tomorrow, country roads will take me home to the place where I belong and I’ll have 10 packs of cheap smokes waiting for me. But for the rest of the country where nagging ne'er-do-wells want to run everybody’s life, these absurd prices will persist. David Marcus is a columnist living in West Virginia and the author of "Charade: The COVID Lies That Crushed A Nation."
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