Mint Report This Comment Date: April 29, 2007 05:52AM
i feel sorry for cigarette comanies. they catch so much flack for no reason at
all
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 29, 2007 10:27AM
People who are trying to get us smokers to quit smoking need to think of one
thing. If we all were to quit smoking right now, how would all the billions of
dollars of lost tax revenue be repalced.
quasi Report This Comment Date: April 29, 2007 01:20PM
I've never been a smoker (of cigarettes that is), tried it but didn't like it,
think of it as just burning money in a very unhealthy way, but I think if people
want to smoke that's their own affair and everyone else just needs to get over
it, butt out, so to speak. Many of my friends as well as the love of my life are
or have been smokers and I've never thought any less of them for it. I wish
people would just quit trying to control other peoples lives when there are
other, more serious issues that they could be spending their time on. I always
figured that after these control freaks got done with the smokers they'd come
after my cheeseburger and fries, and that has already started. Some people on
this site claim the current administration is facist, but this attempt to
control our lives which started with the liberals is facism at it's core. Hitler
was a socialist, too.
Anonymous Report This Comment Date: April 29, 2007 05:46PM
You are worried about tax revenues? Our government doesnt pay for anything
anyways - we borrow or printing more money. Has anyone paid a penny for the war?
Cigarette taxes pale in comparison to our undocumentable fiscal obligations est
at over 100 trillion now.
shaDEz Report This Comment Date: April 29, 2007 10:33PM
eryone should have the right to do to their own bodies as they please... me, i
smoke a pack a day - wish i didn't, but it only way to deal w/ stress until i
can just smoke weed
as for big tobacco, and hell any big business for that matter, i don't give a
flying fuck about them as they don't really do anything to benefit me or the
society
jgoins Report This Comment Date: April 30, 2007 12:58PM
Big tobbaco companies are no big deal. Someone will make money from everything
no matter what it is so what difference does it make. A majority of money
raised from tobbaco taxes goes to our school systems so when every one quits
smoking who will pay for the school systems then? You are right about the
control freaks, if they get everyone to quit smoking then what will the start on
next, maybe something some of the rest of you care about. How about drinking,
no congress would never allow them to stop their 2 martini lunches. Maybe they
will try and make you watch only 1 hour of TV per day, that could be next.