Study Says State Cigarette Taxes Deter Smoking

Quitting smoking is hard; it's not impossible. But f you're willing to break the law or pay extremely high prices to continue the habit..

What is your problem. Who said any of us wants to quit. None of us are doing anything illegal. It's like you find an automobile on the Internet cheaper then what you have in town. You order it over the Net. What's the big deal.

The states are using smokers to carry the budget burden, and if you can't see how wrong that is, I feel sorry for you.

It's been our right to smoke for a long, long time. Most of us do NOT want to quit, but we DO want big Government to butt out of our lives. And don't worry. If you hate smokers, even if they ARE conservative, we don't want to be around you anymore then you want to be around us.

The states are using smokers to carry the budget burden,
and if you can't see how wrong that is, I feel sorry for you.

Hey, I thank you for your contribution. I got tired
of doing it, myself, back when a carton was only
ten dollars. But, wrong? To the extent that all
vice taxes and lifestyle laws are wrong, I agree. But
most of my smoker conservative friends can't see
past their own butts. Pun intended.

Consider big government's definition of the percentage of smokers who die of cancer (some 30%) and realize this sector includes any form of the disease (liver, cervical, bone, prostate, skin...) which may not have any relationship to the habit.

In fact, Tumbleweed, the number of people (smokers and non-smokers, alike) who contract cancer is 1 in 3. Of those, 1 in 4 will die from cancer.

The number of smokers who will contract lung cancer (supposedly the most increased risk of smoking) is, at the very most, 1 in 25.

To put it another way, for every 100,000 smokers in a western country, 4,000 will contract lung cancer at some stage in their life (most very late in life).

However, for every 100,000 nico-nazis in a western country, 30,000 will contract cancer of some kind.

And, even if every smoker in a western country gave up the smokes and became nico-nazis, 30,000 of them would still get cancer.

Oh, yeah, and the other 70,000 of them will die one day. Probably in a nursing home with the other 66,000 smokers!

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