[mewzilla]

I guess I've spent too much time in hospitals with loved ones who smoked. Couldn't folks just use the increase as an added reason to quit?

[Phantom Lord]

You know as well as I do that the tax hike is not about getting people to quit. Its about one thing... MONEY

Do you support the "twinkie tax" proposals on fatty food and soda because people are fat? After all, obesity is a bigger health problem in this country than smoking according to former surgeon general Satcher.

[Great Dane]

#4....... One might suspect you have spent time in hospitals with non-smokers as well.

[Psycho_Bunny]

People die. I'd rather die of lung cancer at 60, than die in diapers and drooling all over myself at 85.

[Max McGarrity]

Couldn't folks just use the increase as an added reason to quit?

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.