I’m really confused about our taxes.

Who in the state of Maine gave whom the right to keep on putting excess amounts of tax on cigarettes?

I don’t remember voting on any such tax. I’m a smoker, but I know a lot of people who don’t smoke and even they say it’s ridiculous to tax cigarettes all the time. Where’s the end?

I’ve smoked for 50 years and it’s not fair to us who have done the same.

The answer is simple: The state has to stop spending what it doesn’t have.

Freeman Lewis, South Paris