The Good Old Days

Just looking through some vintage ads and came across these two just in time for Christmas.

Vintage Smoking Ads

I couldn't resist posting these vintage smoking ads. :)

Doctors Smoke Camels? LOL

I love this ad. To see more great ads go on over to my friend Cookies blog here.

My Smokers Rights

My Smokers Rights:

Tobacco Taxes and Payments for Kansas

Kansas's excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.790

Kansas's excise tax collection for the fiscal year ending June 2004: $121,266,000

Sales tax on tobacco products: 5.30%

Tobacco products sales tax collection for the fiscal year ending June 2004: $30,828,000

Local tax on tobacco products: $0

Federal excise tax per pack of cigarettes: $0.39

Total federal excise tax collections in fiscal year 2004:
$7,778,569,117

Number of six-packs of beer that must be sold in Kansas to produce the same state excise tax and settlement revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 113

Number of bottles of wine that must be sold in Kansas to produce the same state excise tax and settlement revenue generated by one carton of cigarettes: 190

Master Settlement Agreement Payments Received According to the GAO*

$294,456,886 has been paid to Kansas through Fiscal Year 2004 since the Master Settlement Agreement was signed on November 23, 1998.