My son and I did a major cleaning and rearranging of my garage today. He came upon an old Camel's pack (I used to smoke). He laughed when he saw the price tag on it.


$1.89

Sorry chump, I don't smoke. So by your rational, because I don't support this tax means I am a smoker?

I just don't care if people decide to kill themselves with cancer sticks. And last I checked, I was NEVER forced to breathe, smell, or taste a smokers smoke. If I don't like it I will either move or ask them for some consideration, of which I have done both.

yea yea raise taxes on smoking blabla.... look at the motherfucking governments' sheep. "I don't like smoking so raise taxes." "I dont like car use so raise gas prices.". "I dont like beer at bars so raise alcohol prices".... all you fucking fools who don't look further than the particular case do NOT deserve to be able to fucking vote. It's the BIG PICTURE you cunts. Smoking? Gas? Alcohol? Doesnt matter what it is. Whenever you decide the government is right another fucking kitten dies you assholes.. See the big picture please, even if you dont agree with the smalll picture shown. Punks.

btw a carton of luckies = €45..... but i spoke to this fool tonight who claims he can get em at €10 a carton.... i ordered 5..... we'll see....

I hear lots of "fuck the smokers - tax the fuck outta them" comments..

Let's take up a list of names of those and see if they match the whiners list when they start taxing the fuck out of online porn income.

I can already hear the "it's just so unfair" comments when taxing porn income falls into the same "politically correctness" category that taxing smokers fall into now.......

Goose & Gander bitches.....

Well, I am a cigar smoker, and they go up with the new schip program on April 1st. I smoke anywhere from 1-2 on a weekday, but I can afford it! :)

Get used to new taxes. Soon everything will be taxed. :)

it may not equate to that, but he is right.

fact.

It should be taxed 500%... they're addicted. Let's milk'em for as much money as we can get from those who can't say no :upsidedow

Just kidding, really. But still, I have no sympathy. There's NO REASON to smoke. Don't want to pay for it, don't do it. There's enough help out there these days.... patches, clinics, hypnosis... what ever.

Take that pack a day price and put it towards quitting. No more tax problem for you that way.

I agree, assholes are assholes. Some just are just assholes who smoke.

Sure it does.
Studies show that for every X% tax increase on smokers, there is an X% drop in the number of people who smoke.

Sure you may know of people that would rather smoke than eat, that's actually pretty common in Africa I hear....but that doesn't change the truth of what I said about if they continue to raise the taxes, at some point they're going to start getting diminishing returns, and actually collect less in taxes every time they raise them.
Then someone else is going to have to pay for all the programs that tobacco taxes currently pay for. (read: non smokers)

Bah... you guys bitch about $5 a pack cigarettes.... in Canada they are almost $12 a pack for name brands.

i'd rather stand next to a smoker than next to you, always whining :pimp

you have no fucking idea how much your whining and bitching irritates smokers. :321GFY

mind your own fucking business dipshit

I gave up smoking 6 years ago and think everybody should so the same, however to tax a product so much is absurd.
If you live in the US goto England and experience true pain at the gay pump and on cigarettes.

Smoke weed and get off cigs! They are garbage! :thumbsup good luck

True pain at the gay pump? :helpme:helpme

Is that something similar to the men's room in the Minneapolis airport?

Be right back gotta go have a smoke :pimp

lmao ^^

fuck cigs...trying to quit, its been 5 days now! I'm doing alright

Studies have long shown more of a corelation between the increase in diesel use than in any kind of smoking. Also there are some very direct genetic links that refute the second hand smoke theories.

Now for all you fat non-smokers, stay the fuck away from me.
http://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20070...gger-fat-cells

Overweight people cause a massive drain on health resources vs. smokers. So don't be infecting me with your virus, and stay out of the bars, workplaces, and other public places.

I second that.. I do my best to understand that not everyone smokes.
I also don't bitch about the cost or tax.. my smokes cost me $10-$13 a pack... And I have never bitched about the cost. Maybe its because I don't smoke that much...

I only have 1 issue with non smokers, And that's the number of "non" smokers that ask me for a smoke all night long... I know of some non smokers that smoke 2-3 times as much as I do when out for a drink.

try "online cigs"

Smoking in general is just stupid. It directly causes cancer, that is a fact, and you all do it day in and day out. It stains your teeth, makes you lose some of your sense of smell and makes you, your clothes, hair, car, house and everything else you have stink. It is probably the nastiest habit on earth and when I see someone light up given all the date available to us today regarding how bad for your health it is, it makes me think less of them. You honestly have to be a total fool to smoke these days knowing what it is doing to you and not be trying to stop. To smoke with no thought or effort to cut back or quit really shows how foolish you are.

With that said, you have every right to do it in your own home, so smoke if you got 'em.

they need to taxfast food as it would help deter people fro causing inevitable social issues and health costs system wide...

Not everyone that smokes is an asshole. I smoke and try to be very considerate of people that don't smoke. When smoking was still allowed in bars and resturants I would ask someone if they minded before I lit up beforehand. When I have nonsmokers in my house and car I dont smoke out of consideration for them.