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Cigarette prices per state creates economic opportunity

submitted by ymihere to whatever 11 hoursMay 19, 2025 08:59:25 ago (+9/-0)     (www.datapandas.org)

https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/cigarette-prices-by-state

Entrepreneurs in New York travel to Georgia to buy tons of cartons of cigarettes (markup of around $50/carton) from QT and other places and resell them on the streets…guy from QT said menthols were the most in demand…they buy hundreds of cartons whole here and drive back and forth all week…. Thousands of $$$ per week.. New York created this by taxing cigarettes so high…


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The Canadians come across the Detroit river all the time with their boats. Let this be a lesson for the cannabis industry - high taxes will always result in a thriving black market.