[FlingWingFlyer]

BS. You can’t believe anything that anyone in THIS regime says.

[doc1019]

Just like marijuana and other drugs being illegal keeps kids from indulging. BS

[Nifster]

nah they either will get more allowance or steal more from the folks

[BfloGuy]

When cigarettes cost more than pot, then I’d have to concur that it’s working.

[lacrew]

No way! Taxing something stifles it. Does this work with other things too?

[crazyhorse691]

key to keeping American youths from starting to smoke cigarettes is increasing excise taxes on tobacco products

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From criminalizing candy cigs and establishing smoke free zones was for naught when the whole trick was to charge the kids more for their tobacco products...that they aren't supposed to be possessing to begin with. Our country is so screwed.

[txrefugee]

Huh???Just last night, our local TV news reported that teen smoking is at an all-time high with 1 out of 4 teens beginning to smoke before age 18.

Looks like the Sturgeon General, one of the most useless posts in our useless government, didn’t get that report yet.

[Irenic]

Really? (UK study but it is up here, too)

The report from the Schools Health Education Unit shows trends in young people's attitudes to smoking between 1983 and 2001.

The findings reveal that 40 per cent of 12 to 13-year-olds admitted they had tried cigarettes in 2001. This rose to 60 per cent among 14 to 15-year-olds.

That compares to 30 per cent of 12 to 13-year-olds in 1990 and 57 per cent of 14 to 15- year-olds.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-171375/Teen-smoking-rates-rise.html

Funny, cigs are taxed much more than they were in the past. Perhaps things like this contribute...

Teen Mom reality star Jenelle

or how about current Milan runway fashion?

more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2107180/Milan-Fashion-Week-2012-Cigarettes-catwalk-row-DSquared-show.html

Or Lindsy Lohan, Miley Cirus, Paris Hilton, Brittany Spears..on and on... They want to tax out of greed and they blame the tobacoo companies and fail to shake a finger at Hollywood and fashion. It is about more money, not --'for the children'

[microgood]

Does the Surgeon General still wear the Captain Kangaroo outfit. It is so fitting.

[Venturer]

They tax cigarettes and any teen in high school can buy marijuana.

[Mark]

Outlawing tobacco will help much more.(/sarcasm... sort of)

[FrankR]

Yep, if they've got to pay that much for cigs, they might as well buy some pot, or crack.

[terycarl]

when the government uses its power of taxation to regulate a free society’s behavior, there are MAJOR problems involved!!!

[TASMANIANRED]

Cheaper to buy pot.