[Dawgreg]

And those of us who smoke, pay larger premiums on our health insurance. I wanna shake your hand Conservativegrandma. You sound like one of my own kind. *~*

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I actually work in a state legislature and have to listen to this idiocy that if we only raise the tax on a pack of cigs $1.00, all kinds of wonderful things will happen.

We're going to get people to quit smoking and we're going to raise all kinds of additional revenue with which we can do all kinds of wonderful things.

There's hope. The other day, I asked a page (high school age) how they were going to accomplish both and this wise young man saw right through the whole thing. (I think we can safely say, he's a Republican)