Why not just round up ALL the smokers???

KOMO TV ^ | 11/27/2001 | Ken Schram

[seeker41]

Fat Kills

Such a drain on our heathcare system, we must ban fat people immediately!/sarcasm off

[Max McGarrity]

Actually, what I found doesn't add a lot to what I said before (will check on Forces tomorrow to see if they have more). The Jenkins Act is a 50-year-old federal law (Title 15, United State Code, Sections 375, 376, 377, and 378) that requires cigarette vendors to report all sales to the taxing authority in the state of destination. Many of the Native American tribes consider their land sovereign and have defied the Act, as do many other retailers. It is estimated that only 15% of vendors actually report their out-of-state sales. A couple of hundred Californians got stung not long ago with enormous tax bills, sometimes based on the "suspicion" that they had bought cigarettes elsewhere without paying the state its blood money. Some paid up, many didn't. The beauty of buying loose tobacco and making my own, in addition to its very low price, is the different rate at which it's taxed. Even if I had to pay the tax (if they can PROVE I owe it), it wouldn't amount to a hill of beans. Three cartons worth of loose tobacco costs me less than $10.

[Eaker]

I have read out of every dollar spent on healthcare sixty sents of it is spent on SMOKING REALTED ILLNESSES. Your ADDICTION is costing me money, and produces second hand related illness i dont want!.

I pay for MY own healthcare. How is that costing YOU money?? Further, second hand smoke is just that, smoke and mirrors (read as bullshit).

ADDICTION = CHOICE

Eaker

PS: Please support your numbers with real data.

[notyourregularhandle]

Three cartons worth of loose tobacco costs me less than $10.

Thanks again! [Three cartons costs me up and over 100 dollars!!! ;)]

[Mark]

Nearly ALL of us have relatives who lived well past 80 years despite STRONG smoking histories!

Let's not forget the French woman who was the oldest in the world-- died at a young 120 yrs old- smoked all of her life- drank red wine.....BUT the pc crowd will think up an excuse to try to ignore statistics.

[Mark]

See my post 46-- no response from him.

[Eaker]

He has already fluttered his little wings to whine on another "smokin" thread!!

He needs to be careful as to whom he allows to read fairy tales to him. He might try a non-liberal next time.

Eaker

[notyourregularhandle]

bttt

[HarryDunne]

A scary thought, but it will never happen.

[Great Dane]

I have read out of every dollar spent on healthcare sixty sents of it is spent on SMOKING REALTED ILLNESSES. Your ADDICTION is costing me money, and produces second hand related illness i dont want!.

Both statements are wrong, but you already know that.

[Great Dane]

Cancer cures smoking.

Obesity cures overeating, and so on and so on.

[Great Dane]

What a wimp.

LOL... Now you've done it, you're likely to get another nasty freep-mail...... :-}

[ofMagog]

Rationalizations are nice, but watching my heavy smoking partner die of lung cancer wasn't.

[Great Dane]

My condolences, but people who never smoked, gets lung cancer too.

[ofMagog]

The year 1722 was terrible.
Everyone born that year subsequently died.