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- From: haluk@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Haluk Gumrukcu)
- Subject: Re: Just a Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.174930.1348@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>
- Originator: haluk@turlough.dev.cdx.mot.com
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- Organization: Motorola Codex, Canton, MA
- References: <1993Jan4.193327.233@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com> <1993Jan4.231338.22061@ads.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:49:30 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.231338.22061@ads.com>, henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
- |> haluk@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com (Haluk Gumrukcu) wrote:
- |> ->How fair/legal for non-smokers (along with smokers) to decide on cigarette
- |> ->prices?
- |>
- |> depends. do the non-smokers own the cigarettes ... or the facility
- |> which makes them?
- |>
- |> --
- |> # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
- |> # "fight the real enemy." -- sinead o'connor, and many others.
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- No. I'm talking about the latest MA tax increase on cigarettes. Voters decided
- on that question. Result is 30 cent/pack tax increase. I don't see any
- justification to the fact that they ask voters to set the price. I think there aren't any other consumable's price set that way.
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