[Vectorian]

I didn't realise that a drug had to be illegal for you to be addicted to it! Smokers are physically addicted to smoking - they are junkies just like people who are addicted to legal drugs like prozac. Because smokers are addicts, the govt. can abuse you financially, relying on your addiction to keep you buying your nicotine fix whatever the price, just as pushers know doubling the price of a rock won't reduce their sales.

I persoanlly don't mind people smoking at all, but you do have to realise that as an addict, you are far more open being abused than a non-addict. A non-addict would simply give up when the price went up, but a nicotine junkie can't do that very easily.

[SheLion]

I persoanlly don't mind people smoking at all, but you do have to realise that as an addict, you are far more open being abused than a non-addict. A non-addict would simply give up when the price went up, but a nicotine junkie can't do that very easily.

How about we don't "give it up" because we enjoy it.  Cigarettes being a legal commodity and all.  I love my cigarettes and coffee.  I don't drink.  What do you want from us?

And btw, what is YOUR relaxation of choice?  Drugs or booze??!!

I have friends addicted to PEPSI!  So what?

[Bogey]

I persoanlly don't mind people smoking at all, but you do have to realise that as an addict, you are far more open being abused than a non-addict.

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Always amazes me why Brits can't figure out why the rest of the world finds them so rude.