It was now a few years ago that they jacked up the taxes on canned tobacco, which hurt a lot of very poor people.
That “it is for their own good” is a b.s. argument, when taking away the few, small pleasures they have.
I would suggest that anyone who uses this line of argument should be prohibited from eating food in restaurants, because it is less healthy, as a rule, than food prepared at home. And “it is for their own good”, to deprive them of something *they* find pleasing.
June 2009. I was mightily pissed off, I can tell you... when I was out of work and poor, I rolled my own for much less money than ready-rolled cigs. Now the government has screwed that up.
July 2009 was when I began 'smoking' e-cigarettes (personal vaporizers) to get my nicotine fix. I haven't paid a cent in cigarette taxes for some time now and my lungs are feeling much better!