Cigarettes are probably the most highest taxed thing you can buy, besides a house (which through annual property taxes and forced insurance purchases, will claw from you more money eventually than the original price of the house.

I too would like to know how my smoking of a cigarette on a beach costs the city any money at all so that it may be saved if I don’t smoke the cigarette. Likewise the public health implications of smoking on a beach are not readily apparent.

“This has saved the city = you and me – hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.”

Further explanation or proof of these savings.

I do not know what the governments are doing with the monies raised through the sales of cigarettes. I assume it all goes into a general fund and when it is earmarked for some special purpose, it provides a convenient excuse for not funding that purpose from the general fund. Given the high taxes a cigarette smoker pays, they have, indeed, paid for the privilege.

And, no, I don’t smoke cigarettes.

Bob

In this State smoking is banned in all parks and on all beaches. This has saved the city = you and me – hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. Until the cigarette addicts figure out a way to transfer the burden of clean-up to those who are its cause the smokers are acting like spoiled crybabies to cry about their “rights” to smoke.