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Tax increase on poor smokers rises by 2,250%

That's right. The tax on loose tobacco to roll your own went up from $1.10/lb to $24.87 a pound. Rumor has it this was the tobacco companies doing because so many people switched at the last round of tax hikes. This is now going beyond simple discrimination. Anti-smokers are rabid to punish smokers now, while at the same time denying any responsibility to help the poor children of America get health care. Hypocrites. Well, this time, I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. The mouse that roared. In the immortal words of Ronald Regan, "They counted on us to be passive. They counted wrong."

One smoker with a terminal disease and less than a 50/50 chance of surviving the year.

What could he possibly do to us? If you want to change the world, you do it with thought.

SMOKERS TAX REVOLT! AS GOD SAID, "PHYSICIAN HEAL THYSELF." I'M NOT A PHYSICIAN SO I HAVE TO GO TO MY TWO DOCS TO MAKE ME WELL. ANTI-SMOKERS GET ABOUT $25 A MONTH IN CIGARETTE TAX FROM ME. FINE. I'LL SEE YOUR $25 AND RAISE YOU 2,250%. WORKS OUT TO ABOUT $5,600 A MONTH I WILL NOW SPEND ON HEALTH CARE. SINCE I'M DISABLED AND HAVEN'T HAD ANY INCOME FOR A YEAR, THE STATE GIVES ME FREE HEALTH CARE. I HAVE A LOT OF HEALTH ISSUES. NOT RELATED TO SMOKING. I USED TO IGNORE THEM HOPING I WOULD GET SOMETHING FATAL TO PUT ME OUT OF MISERY LIKE YOU WOULD DO FOR A DOG YOU LOVED. NO MORE. I'M GETTING FIXED UP WITH THE FINEST MEDICAL CARE AND MEDICINE YOUR MONEY WILL BUY. IF SMOKERS HAD A TEA PARTY, USING THIS IDEA, IT WOULD DEVASTATE THE ECONOMY OF THE U.S. AS WELL AS THE REST OF THE WORLD THAT IS EVEN HARSHER ON SMOKERS. I'M NOT SAYING WE SHOULD BRING THE WORLD TO IT'S KNEES. I JUST SAY WE HAVE THE POWER. ALL WE NEED TO DO TO REPEAL THE TAXES IS TO FLEX OUR MUSCLES A LITTLE. SAY FOR ONE DAY. I PICK 9/11/09, BECAUSE 9/11/2001 WAS THE DAY THAT DEVASTATED MY LIFE. SMOKERS UNITE AND OVERTHROW THE OPPRESSORS. I'LL START FIRST.

smoking

The pollutants in cigaretts are causing cancers in non-smokers and also causing climate change.The slogan "Another cigarette will help seal your coffin" may send a stronger message than just quit.

Smoking studies are nothing more than hyped theory

To all the anti smoking haters, there still after 25+ yrs of research, no PROOF what so ever that smoking will kill you or cause even 1% of the damage that so called studies that make false claims will occur. If thier numbers are correct and thier theories are correct, then this world would have over 60 million less residents that currently living on the planet. Tobacco use has been around for a very long time, its use was more prevailent than now in percentage of users. If the almighty money machine of BIG PHARM IE Anti smoking drugs, aids. The Political Forum, IE BIG $$ Donations for policy effect, and BIG $$ Charities and Research facilities in the 100 of millions of dollars. People wake up... Anti smoking is not as dangerous as they make it out to be, the truth is your local factory puts out more pollution and healthrisk pollution out into the air in one hour than a ballroom of smokers smoking for a month straight. Is smoking good for you... no, but neither is drinking booze, eating chocolate, using salt, butter, eating too much anything or 1,000,000 other things in this country that is to ail you. But yet smokers are forced into unfair doctrine by the elitist money making so called honest professionals who like sheep you follow blindly. Go look up in the AMA Journals.. there is NO PROOF that smoking kills only so called links that use words like MIGHT CAUSE, COULD CAUSE, LEAN TOWARDS, but NO PROOF. This is like saying eating 4 apples a day could lead to fermentation of the apples in your digestive system and form hard cider, which could get you drunk just from eating apples. Get a clue and stop listening to all the hype! BAAH!

cigarettes

nowaday, all over the world knew that smoking is a bad habit,

but still got million people like it. why? we should protect our people from continuing smoking by banned smoking all over the world. destroy all the cigarettes, then human will have a

long life 100 years above. also decrease criminal case.

smoking

I think that if smoking is causing all of these health problems then they should be illigel

How about...

...what are the names of the chemicals discussed in this article? Geez.

Tobacco Smokers

In case you missed it, this is about tobacco smokers.

Easy to miss as the word Tobacco only shows up once in the article.

smoking & cancer

It is good,