> And did you know that several states are adding as much as a dollar a pack to their cigarette tax?
> Luck.
> Howard

Actually, wintermute is British, but from some of his past posts, I gather that England probably taxes cigarettes much higher than anything you'd find in the U.S. In fact, I seem to recall him talking about going to France to buy his smokes because it was so much cheaper.

Gri"not that that makes your advice invalid"shny