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If a kid decides to smoke, no laws will stop him. Exhorbitant taxes will even make the kids want to smoke more. It is the equivalent of putting a designer tag in his mouth. The drug war isn't working but the cigarette war is. It's time to give them something to spend our sin tax money on.

Any teen who spends $100 on designer jeans or Niki's isn't going to bulk about buying a "pack" of cigarettes. It's the adults who buy CARTONS that the taxes hurt really bad.

Is it just me, or is anyone else just a bit tired of this war on the smoker? How about the lawmakers starting a war on teens and drugs; teens and birth control; teens and alcohol. I think they have bigger fish to fry then just someone smoking a damn cigarette!

I've never been a one issue person but the cigarette taxes are turning me into a person who will NOT vote for anyone who has a hand in the increases. Before long, we will be paying more in taxes for cigarettes than in federal and all the other taxes I don't believe in. The government will make criminals out of everyone sooner or later. The ones who will be the object of their greed later will do good for themselves to help us fight our cause now. These pious no-do-gooders want a perfect world, or rather, what they consider perfect. They are fighting a cause that doesn't even affect them unless they choose to be around us and they do. They want us to change our personal space so they can butt it. If I quit tomorrow, I don't want anything to do with them...ever!!