Vice Tax Starts Charging Today

Dear smokers, drinkers and friends of those,

Today is a sad day in Romania. A few months ago the Government (the Health Ministery) decided to introduce this "vice tax" and today it becomes effectual. What does that mean? Well it means that they introduce a quite big charge (30%). They say this way the Romanians will drink and smoke less... So this means that a pack of cigarettes will cost with 1RON more and a litter of pure alcohol will cost with 7RON more... (1RON = approx. 0,29 EUR)

Even sadder is the fact that this is not the only rise that the bachus friends and smokers will encounter this year. The Ministry of Health thought in its wisdom that they should rise the prices up again in July with another 25-30%. This will be definately fun.

So, many of my friends already pilled up a few boxes of cigarettes and are all saying "we gotta quit smoking". Well, we'll see about that. They say that for vices one will always have the money, even if will cut other things. I do hope that we'll all quit smoking, but what about drinks? Why can't we have the famous cheap Romanian beer anymore?

This sucks dude!