[SheLion]

I'm saving this and the rest of the article for tomorrow's thread. But ck this out:

[Lazamataz]

I understand they will be raising the tax to eleventy-skadillion-zillion dollars per single cigarette.

It's for the children. If it saves one life, its worth it.

[Lois]

In 1998, after happily smoking for 47 years, I stopped buying "store boughts" and rolled my own. The reason, I didn't want to be sending money off to Klinton. I then quit, cold turkey. Then, as now, I see the feds as the big taxers. The states are small potatoes. As I see it, anything over .50 for a pack of smokes is over taxation, period. Do I miss smoking, of course I do. I'm the one hanging around the outside of buildings, breathing in all that delicious second hand smoke. Love the smell of tobacco burning, have since I was 4. My parents didn't smoke, but my uncles did, and when they came to visit, I would sit and just enjoy.