CigaretteButtTax

San Francisco Mayor Wants to Tax Cigarette Butts

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom wants to tax your butt. You know, the one that makes up roughly one third the length of a cigarette and routinely ends up littering the sidewalk. In an effort to deter smoking even further, and help defray the cost of paying to clean up all the discarded butts from streets and municipal drain pipes, Newsom, who has announced his intention to run for governor in California, would slap an additional 33 cents to the price of a pack of cigarettes. Needless to say, tobacco companies are not happy with this idea, that makes an already heavily taxed product even more ...

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