[SheLion]

In fact, MY taxes, and those of every other smoker in this country, pay for others ill-advised habits such as overeating.

In 1994, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service spent 22 months and 20 million dollars--at the request of rabid anti Henry Waxman, no less--to determine just how much money smokers cost society.

Guess what: Smokers DO NOT COST SOCIETY. We pay in to the system far more than we ever take out. You should be paying US to smoke! The New England Journal of Medicine concurs, as do economists from Yale and Harvard, and the CRS reiterated that fact in 1999.

[B4Ranch]

I am not going to pay you to smoke or do anything else. Understood? If you want money from me then you are going to have to perform something that I request. Cleaning house, painting, running my errands, etc.

While you're gone I'll smoke my own cigarettes.