It will have been seven years next month since I had my last smoke.
There have been at least a half dozen other times that I have 'quit for good' since I started smoking before the Surgeon General talked down to me by putting warnings on each pack. Any kid with half a brain knows that ingesting smoke of any kind into their lungs is not good for them. I did and I still miss lighting up. But, this time, I think I've kicked the habit for good.
That said, if I were still smoking, I think I would be growing and rolling my own.
What gets me cranked on this Tobacco Tax issue is that these legislators have already butchered and consumed the fat hog they got from the Tobacco Settlement - directly paid for by higher prices.
Now, they can tell us that "We All Know that XXX program must be continued or expanded." If it is true that "We All" know the importance of the current spending folly, get "We All" to pay for it. Instead of demonizing smokers who have paid far, far more than their share of taxes.