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*.W8-caTai BULS.ETIN _. " t , . . 14ES.SENGFfR San Frttttcisco Caliiornia ~:. '' lYtadisonv211e Kentucky W~'=:'.r.r 2 a February 231 19(2 Januaty 19, 196 State cigarette taxes' are a deductible n k item on your federal income tax return, if h Th i S no ere ere r~e , s %entuc , howeven, is not one of the seve r>l, ~. you live, in one of several states. Our own f' .- so reatty, tnere is no great need to asattss Pipes in Wfirfe House persuadingty'te gals to smoke. As part of mated' at ;3;100:000:000 for 1961. but p piece of research was an eye-opener. master was aghast. He ordered them to g ;.. Not only did the colonial dames ' leave. Many cities forthwith passed as has been mentioned many times. The &' smoke up a istorm, but women have been ordinances forbidding women to smoke cent' federal tax is not deductible. At the' smoking aimost' constantly since Sir 1n pubhr r t;: same time it might be mentioned that tobartim Walter Raleigh gave Queen Elizabeth taxes imposed by the states have gone up 50 her first' puff' of' burley-and-bright: It Enter tite Ad Man made, her dizzy, by the.way, and! for a But in the end the women won as Pet, oent since 1989 sticky moment Sir Wa[terwas'suspected usual, andlthe men had only themselves ;1' Here is a rather stantling figure', too: ot, poisoning the queen ) to blame: Cigaret manufacturers realized Total taxes on cigarettes alone are esti• '- they could, double their market by at women and the weed didn't really Virginny gathered in the Richmond State and federal taxes combmed average get together till' the flapper' era, this train station and lighted,up. The station about half the cost of ai aek of d arette= . a-day smoker. TD a fellow who vaguely assumed Shandal• Several rebellious belles in Old t e a r oam e •men and smokmg e±~w e tax deduction ini detail. ADY, BEFORE youlight:that cigaret;, Paris. tti Ii'llsten to what they're saying about But for some reason, In America;, , However. it might be of, interest to some you gals who smoke. ~:,~ 4w~eh,hadn't objected to women amok, to bear that seven more states changed their "They smoke in bed, they smoke aa ' ing pipes, the prospect of mama taking a laws last ear they knead their bread, they even smoke drag, on a cigaret was regarded as eye- y to make state taxes on i dga, whilst,they are,eooking." •-rolling scandalousi When a few daring rettes and other tobacco products deduct3le The fellow who made that remark chicks tried it in New York in 1654, an from gross income on federal returns. TfD•didn't mean, youi personally. He, wrote editorial writer warned against "aping BACt'0' NEWS reports that such deductibnR it'a long time ago, about the women of the silly ways of' pseudo-aecomplished are now a])bwed in 24 of', the 47 states that colonial New Ettgland. I ~: '-: foreigners;' and so began a running bat- . When we think of our prim Puritan tle to save mama from a nicotine fit. Impose tobacco taxes r x ancestor, on her way to prayer meeting, Se far as the records show, Mrs. with psalm book In hand, we don't ple+ Grover Cleveland was the first presi. Since state taxes run from 2 cents ture her as a ehain•smoker. But 11obae. denNs wife to offer eigarets to her wom• to18'cenfs a pack, the figures can add up_ 0o News, a poop sheet of the industry, en gnestb In the Wbita House, and eye• ln, a state where the tax is 6 cents, for found the lowdown tn an old memoir, brows went'np like smoke signaL when example. it would mean a redttctioni in which it incorporated ini a report about word of'that orgy leaked out. • 1-1 1 te the Richmond taxable income of over 320 for a pack- A .r, St21OheT'S NQte . .. . .. - . . - -.. . } . •.i:5.~ - all the returns are not in yet, so the figure is not absolute. • . . her granddaughters; Jackie failed to them actually smoking. In case a smoker might be' interested. mention it the other nighti hut the wives ' Ths classic In this field wss an ad' here is'a list of states where you can deduct' of'tnco president:c, bfrs, Andrew Jackson that featured a sweet young thing, be- state cigarette taxes-and' generally other and 'Ars. ?achary Taylhr; puffed pipes seeeh'ing her eigaret-puffing boyfriend : tobacco taxeS--on federal returns A936ama; in the White House. Smelled up the to "blow some my way." place something awful: • The American Tobacco Co: was California, Connecticut. Florida. Maine, Massa+ Yankee women weren't the only ones among the first to come right out and chusetts. Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri; who smoked. South of'the border, Sp,an• invite the lad"acs to ismoke; w•ith, an ad Nebra•ska, Nevada. New Jersey, New Hamp- Ishiadies sat'on their balconies and'blew, suggesting weight<ronscious women shire; New' York, Ohio, Oklahoma„ Peni smokrrings from seegaritos. should "reach for a Lucky instead of'a vania Rhode Island! South DPkofa; 7fennes F'or awhile the women of' Europe sweet." Candy makers did a slow burn. trent on a snuff kick. Madame Pompa- Today the government estimates 34 see;Texas, Vermont. West Virginia and Wyo- dour insistcd that a pinch of snuff im- pct. of cigaret smokers are women. The ming: _ +-ed,the memory. next step is inevitable.. The hand that' The states which joinedl this kindi of smo- C:igarets scored their first success rocks the cradle will have nicotine stains ke+s' parade in 1961 were California, Min with the women,of Europe, too. By the on its fingers and an anchor tattooed on t The colonial woman didn't smoke the softening up process, advertistni; cigarets, because they hadn1t been in- men went to work on .vays to associate vented yet. She smoked a pipe: So did women with cigarets, without showing e, Mtssoun;, Nevada, Ohfo, Texas aod mid•160o's they were de rigeur with the its back. And all because Miles Standish beso ~ elegant dames who graced lhe salons of didn't put his foot down. .