[Cultural Jihad]

Thanks for posting.

[Flyer]

Between 1986 and 1989, an average of 30% of Americans told Gallup that they had smoked any cigarettes within the past week. In Gallup's July 2002 survey, the figure is only 24%.

I sometimes question these figures and wonder if there aren't many closet smokers.

Within our Houston FReeper Chapter the percentage of smokers is 80 - 90%. Are conservatives more likely to smoke because they more willing to make decisions for themselves, rather than live by the Nanny State guidelines?

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[KS Flyover]

[Alas Babylon!]

Self-interest appears to play an important role in the formation of attitudes toward cigarette taxation policy. Smokers widely oppose raising taxes on cigarettes, whether purportedly for their own good (83% are opposed) or as financial compensation to government for smoking-related health costs (70% are opposed). A majority of non-smokers favor both proposals; 58% favor taxes aimed at discouraging smoking; 62% favor it to recoup health costs.

First, they came for the smokers, but since I wasn't a smoker, I didn't care....

I bet they'd howl with outrage if the gov started taxing their favorite habit/vice. Big Mac tax? SUV tax?

I wish those who advocate taxes on OTHER people would realize the gov is raising taxes because they want more money to spend, not because they're trying to reform smokers.

[Great Dane]

to provide the government with money to offset the healthcare costs associated with smoking.

Here they go again, the taxes provide for politicians wasting money, spend like drunken sailors and whom hasn't got the foggiest idea about finances.