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I am sure spending a lot of effort taking care of my Mother in Law who smoked herself into a wheel chair. She lost her leg due to bad circulation due to 57 years of smoking and eating junk food. Now she wants Medicare to buy her new leg for 8500 bucks, which they did. BUT, now her stump shrunk and they want to sell her/medicare another 8500 dollar leg after only 12 weeks. Meanwhile my wife and homeschooling mother of 8 has to haul her all over the city to get her hair done and buy her groceries and take her to new leg therapy. Her Dr told her she was too old and only 1 out of 5 people her age can use a fake leg. AND THE WOMAN IS A DEMOCRAT!!!

I could give a rats ass how much they tax cigarettes.

Is your mother in law diabetic? I've never heard of someone losing a leg because of smoking - but it happens frequently because of diabetes.

I understand your 'hatred' of smoking, but I find it appalling that they tax cigarettes as they do, yet barely touch liquor and leave porn totally unscathed. Perhaps those two 'sins' are the politicians favorites.

Meanwhile my wife and homeschooling mother of 8 has to haul her all over the city to get her hair done and buy her groceries and take her to new leg therapy.

What about all of the times your mother-in-law took care of your wife when she was sick when she was growing up? What about all of the places she carted her to?

If you 'talk' this way about your mother-in-law in front of your children, I wouldn't doubt if they feel the same way about you when you are elderly and sick. I feel sorry for you.

I am sure spending a lot of effort taking care of my Mother in Law who smoked herself into a wheel chair. She lost her leg due to bad circulation due to 57 years of smoking and eating junk food...

It is impossible to definitively place blame on cigarette smoking for any individual person's diseases. IMPOSSIBLE. You can suspect. You can highly suspect, even. But you can never ever prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. She could have been genetically susceptible to circulation problems. It could have been entirely related to poor dietary habits. She could be one of those few unlucky people that got hit with fallout from all those above-ground nuke tests in the 50s and 60s. It could be anything.

Oh, and it's been proven that merely eating junk food is not the source of poor health in overweight people: It's being sedentary. You could be quite fat, but as long as you maintain just about any level of exercise whatsoever, even just a half-hour walk per day, then you're going to be in much better overall health than a thin person who eats absolutely "perfectly" but gets no exercise at all.