David Marcus: Chicago’s $20 packs of cigarettes are taxed so high even King George III would be embarrassed

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It was my own fault. I had purchased 10 packs of my favorite smokes for about 6 bucks each in West Virginia on my way to the airport last week, but in a very me move I left them in my car.

This was bad enough in San Francisco, my first stop, where a package of 20 sticks of momentary bliss costs an absurd 15 dollars but in Chicago, my mind and wallet were blown when the 7-Eleven cashier rang up my two packs for 40 dollars.

Why not a hundred? Why not a million?

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First of all, this is pointless. I asked the concierge at my hotel about it and he told me, “Nobody who lives here pays that,

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