Posted on 04/03/2002 4:43:00 AM PST by Phantom Lord
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:55:11 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
I LIKE smoking.
My Great-Grandmother lived to 93 and still worked in her garden every day.
I smoke, and just built a 16' x 4' raised bed garden. Will the one cancel out the other?
www.tomjonesdrug.com
They are advertising the Nico-pop. Yes, this is correct. Lollipops in whatever flavor you want, laced with nicotine and sugar-free (splenda) for diabetics. It says you can take a few "licks" and store the Lollipop in the Fridgerator for future "fixes"...
No price, tho.
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I'm not sure...I'm new to using anecdotal stories as a source of universal truth. The antis are much better at it than I am. We should ask them the rules.
Reason given cigar smokers live longer is that they usually have higher incomes and lead more relaxed and less stressful lifestyle. True or not, who knows.
First, when the State of New York realizes less revenue from tobacco taxes than it had expected, there will be pressure to close the "Internet loophole" that lets smart New Yorkers buy their smokes tax-free. You can't really expect a cut in the health programs the tax is supposed to benefit. Those are vital, don't you know?
Look for the Indian tribes to join the clamor for taxing Internet purchases, just as they do doubt celebrated this latest tax increase. Higher prices elsewhere will bring people to the reservation to shop.
Then there's the nightmare scenario.
Even after plugging the Internet loophole and putting a duty on imported cigarettes, tax revenues drop considerably because for whatever reasons people smoke less than before.
What would the State of New York's next move be to salvage its bloated health-care system?
You got it: Promote smoking.
Couldn't possibly have anything to do with heredity now, could it?
Who is more addicted... Smokers to nicotine, or government to tobacco tax money?
While it is unlikely to happen, especially in the near to not so distant future, I would like to see the tobacco companies stand up and say they are not going to take it anymore and pull all their tobacco products from the shelves and cease selling their tobacco products in America. Combine that with my above question and who would be rioting, smokers or government? The shit would really hit the fan and it would be a pleasure to watch the government, federal and state, go into full blown cardiac arrest.
Somehow, the realization that someone is trying to FORCE me to do something I didn't make up my mind on my own to do, just makes me more stubborn. And I'm not so very different from a lot of other folks. It gives me an added reason to grow my own and to encourage others to do the same.
Hey, Gabz, I just wrote them (cable@msnbc.com)...wonder if they'll read MY letter. Somehow I doubt it. Hehehe.
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