Posted on 10/20/2013 5:43:53 AM PDT by Sam's Army
Many people smoke after they've eaten. Lindell Harvey smokes because he hasn't.
"You smoke out of anxiety because you don't have the food you need," said Harvey, 54, who lives alone in Crum Lynne, Pa. He receives disability checks from the Navy that keep him $2,000 below the poverty line.
Harvey relies on his Newports to see him through his hard days. "In my mind, the smoking becomes a comfort as I try to create ways to get food."
(Excerpt) Read more at theledger.com ...
I understand. /grin
May I also assume your children aren’t doing without necessities so your dogs can eat? IOW, you actually have a sense of *priorities*?
I am so old that even my grandchildren are grown! No, we were able to feed everyone, kids, dogs and the cows (somehow). :)
For that $5.00 for smokes, he could have cured that hunger with a happy meal.
If he’s on disability from the Navy and is $2000 below the poverty line, doesn’t he get food stamps? Something is wrong with this picture.
And as many mentioned, $5 or $6 a day for cigarettes, if put towards food instead, would allow him to buy food. Something is totally wrong with the premise of this story.
The irony of this is that tobacco taxes are by far the most regressive taxes in the US. Not just the federal and state cigarette taxes, but the wholesale taxes, the income taxes paid by importers (from Turkey), farmers (domestic), warehouses, wholesalers, cigarette makers, rail and truck transporters, and retailers, as well as the capital gains taxes paid by investors in any corporation involved.
If tobacco was tax-free, a pack of cigarettes would cost from 5-25 cents. The actual prices of tobacco from start to finish.
Oddly enough, China now produces 40% of the world’s tobacco, and has more smokers than the population of the US.
Just as with most non-smokers..you chose to create your own story to justify 'government interference'. Businesses should have the freedom to choose who their clientel is.....Gov., as it always does, took away the freedom for businesses to determine this.
No joke, some people can stop dope, booze, all the addictions; and others just can't. That's how smoking is with the wifey who I have been married to 29 years. I'll get the cancer before she ever will too, ha ha.
<...”Now when I go in some place where people smoke, the stinky smell is obvious and I have to get into fresh clothes as quick as possible”.....>
You ‘still’ have a choice to go there or not.
“When you’re deprived, it creates enormous mental anguish,” said Chilton, an expert on hunger. “One of the fastest, most convenient ways to help is a cigarette. It’ll keep you sane, and keep you from hurting yourself or others.”
Which Libtard left the door to the locked ward open again?
He probably is selling the food stamps to buy butts.
The cruelty and pure evil of inanimate objects never ceases to astound me. Next, we’ll learn that sofas grab on to the poor’s gigantic butts and refuse to let them get up and leave their apartments to find work. :)
“Tobacco is not that difficult to grow. I don’t spend anything like $5/day on cigarettes. I do have to spend some time out in the garden, though.
/johnny “
Dat be wasis!
Cracka gettin cheap tobacco and stealin’ vitamin D from de po at de same time!
Yesterday was my 13th year anniversary smoke free after 40 years of smoking.
I tried growing some here along the Yukon River in Ak. Too cold, didn’t do well until I stuck plants in the green house. When it got cold, I brought them 3 plants in the house, they are 5 foot tall now, and flowers have dropped seed pods which I’m trying to collect. I’m going to start them in the greenhouse nx year. That Virgina Gold, won’t even make the wifey quit, ha ha.
With this guy’s Navy disability, he doesn’t need to get Obamacare. As a disabled veteran, he’s got VA medical benefits.
You just have to experiment with when to start 'em and when to grow 'em. ;)
/johnny
Good question.I guess we can sue re: 14th Amend. Once it takes hold.
A pound of dried black beans is about $1. So is rice. A pound of rice and beans is enough for a couple of days.
The government/media complex rings their hands because the blame fast food for obesity, then they ring their hands because "poor" people can't afford fast food.
This is none of the government’s business.
This article is just more of the ten minutes of hate for the day. The government made cigs the price they are today in order to harm the targets. Then they condemn the addicts for spending so much on smokes.
How bout everyone mind their own business for a change and refuse to give the communists punitive taxes on products and preferences for groups/tribes/classes of people.
The article is one more bird-cage-liner piece of LIB crap. The guy should get off his smokin’ butt and buy some food. He sounds like yet another “woe is me” bum who makes continuous bad decisions for him self..
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