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The Daily Mess The Price Of Cigarettes Plus Too Many Music Award Shows · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: now I'm not a smoker. But I have noticed the
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  Speaker 1: high price of cigarettes these days. Why are they charging
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  Speaker 1: so much per pack? Plus, speaking of too much. Why
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  Speaker 1: are there so many music award shows online? plaguing our
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  Speaker 1: flat screens. My name is Arrow. I'm a daily writer,
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  Speaker 1: subject arrives inside of me, it's time to dig in.
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  Speaker 1: It's still keeping that daily journal, but by doing the research...
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  Speaker 1: The picture is always going to become clearer. This is
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  Speaker 1: the daily mess. Why are cigarette prices soaring into record highs? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's all about the taxes. I mean, let's say it together. Taxes. Oh, my.
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  Speaker 1: The taxes. Plus, the store, you know, has got to
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  Speaker 1: grab their fair share of the profits as well. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here in North Carolina, the excise tax is 45 cents
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  Speaker 1: per pack. Each of those packs carries a $ 1. 01 federal
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  Speaker 1: cigarette tax. Now, I'm not a smoker, so I'm really
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  Speaker 1: totally lost in every bit of this. But it's very
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  Speaker 1: interesting because now we're going to toss in a state
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  Speaker 1: sales tax, which is unbelievably 8.25%. Guess who else wants money?
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  Speaker 1: The manufacturers and the distributors. Stores aren't pocketing the cigarette money.
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  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, we are in a moment here
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  Speaker 1: where things are being marked up without control. Why is
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  Speaker 1: this even happening every week? Which also includes the very
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  Speaker 1: popular Zin, Z-Y-N products. It's not taxes, but rather those
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  Speaker 1: that are making the product. Marlboro has reported multiple price hikes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not picking on them and I'm not blaming this
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  Speaker 1: on the government, but here's what Marlboro has done since
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  Speaker 1: January of this year. In January, 20 cents up. Another
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  Speaker 1: 20 cents in April and another 17 cents charging higher
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  Speaker 1: during the months after that. Grocery stores are convinced that
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  Speaker 1: no matter how high these cigarettes get, you're still going
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  Speaker 1: to buy them. Oh my God. Hey, coming up next,
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  Speaker 1: why are there so many award shows when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to music on our flat screens? Hey, thanks for coming
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  Speaker 1: back to the Daily Mess. Why are there so many
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  Speaker 1: music award shows on our flat screens? Do viewers even
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  Speaker 1: care about this? You ready for this? The award shows
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  Speaker 1: are not primarily about handing out the trophies. They're seen
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  Speaker 1: as television events that are built around performances, celebrity appearances, advertising,
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  Speaker 1: and of course, streaming. The reason why it freaks people
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  Speaker 1: out to have so many award shows is because it's
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  Speaker 1: a lot to digest. But every organization wants to have
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  Speaker 1: their own property. The Grammy Awards, the VMAs, billboards, even iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 1: They all want a night that they call their own.
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  Speaker 1: But let's be honest here. Live TV desperately needs an attraction.
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  Speaker 1: Scripted TV can be watched later on in time. The
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  Speaker 1: CMAs are right here, right now. And yes, the artists
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  Speaker 1: and the record companies benefit in a big-time way. One
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  Speaker 1: song can be watched by millions of people worldwide, just
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  Speaker 1: like MTV used to do, but they don't play music
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  Speaker 1: videos anymore. Yeah, a lot of music award shows and
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  Speaker 1: the television networks don't mind if you don't love them.
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  Speaker 1: They need a few million to watch it, not millions
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  Speaker 1: and billions who are anxiously biting at the bit. Who's
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  Speaker 1: going to win? Who's going to win? Once again, it's
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  Speaker 1: not about handing out the trophies. It's about the performances,
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  Speaker 1: the celebrity appearances, the advertising, and the streaming. I'm Arrow,
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  Speaker 1: and that's The Daily Mess.