only rich people can smoke now...

i am not rich.

maybe if i can scrounge up some change...

man thats a tough one......um...how about quit smoking?

I'd rather just not smoke, it's good for me.

*shrugs* I hate smoking anyways, and will never smoke as long as I live.

Simple solution, quit.

Well, I'm used to high prices since I smoke cigars. They've always been pricey compared to cigarettes.

I'll bet ten thousand dollars that by this time in three years, the number of rich people in this country will have drastically and mysteriously dropped.

i tried a cigar once. i took a few puffs and it made me cough and vomit. not cool. i hate smoking.

1) It's mostly the poor who smoke.

2) It'd be bad if everyone suddenly stopped smoking. Tobacco generates a lot of money, and it is taxed heavily. Tax tobacco to the point that no one buys it any more, and there's a LOT of money to be lost. Potentially a lot of jobs to be lost. And I don't know how big the average small business owner's profit margins are, but I doubt that they're all that high. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if quite a few businesses are actually staying afloat because of things like tobacco and malt liquor sales.

3) I don't think it's in anyone's best interests to tax tobacco so much that people stop buying it. The idea is to make the tax increases small enough that people can still afford to buy the product. I was under the impression that the taxes which are about to go into effect make up an average of a 66 cent increase on the price of each pack of cigarettes. In my state, it's looking to be an increase of about one dollar. That's certainly a significant increase in prices, though I could probably choose to offset that increase by switching to the crappiest generic brand available.

Roll your own. That is what I do. In fact I am about to roll some right now.zombie_forumite

Isn't loose tobacco gonna gonna have significant tax increases applied to it as well?

Oh my goddddd!! What will we ever kill ourselves with now?majoras_wrath

Booze, I guess. That's the RESPECTABLE person's deadly addiction.

[QUOTE="majoras_wrath"]Oh my goddddd!! What will we ever kill ourselves with now?MrGeezer

Booze, I guess. That's the RESPECTABLE person's deadly addiction.

Quick 20 minutes, 9 bucks, and I have a 24 pack ready to go.

[QUOTE="majoras_wrath"]Oh my goddddd!! What will we ever kill ourselves with now?MrGeezer

Booze, I guess. That's the RESPECTABLE person's deadly addiction.

That's a good thing since I HATE smoking and less people need to shave off 11 minutes of their lives with every cigarette they smoke.gunswordfist

Personally I'm of the opinion that anyone who believes such a ridiculous statistic needs to start thinking about what they are saying.

Honestly, that's such a BS statistic that it's not even funny. It's just like the claim that the average person eats 8 spiders in their sleep, or that the average man thinks about sex every three seconds.

[QUOTE="zombie_forumite"]Roll your own. That is what I do. In fact I am about to roll some right now.MrGeezer

Isn't loose tobacco gonna gonna have significant tax increases applied to it as well?

[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

[QUOTE="majoras_wrath"]Oh my goddddd!! What will we ever kill ourselves with now?gobo212

Booze, I guess. That's the RESPECTABLE person's deadly addiction.

Cigarettes aren't classy any more, though. Booze has really taken tobacco's place as the deadly highly addicting drug that signifies class.

Good. The more people who are forced to quit, the better.

Damn those taxes :x

Good. The more people who are forced to quit, the better.

pianist

If the aim is to force people to quit, then they ought to just have some balls and ****ing ban it.

[QUOTE="gunswordfist"]That's a good thing since I HATE smoking and less people need to shave off 11 minutes of their lives with every cigarette they smoke.MrGeezer

Personally I'm of the opinion that anyone who believes such a ridiculous statistic needs to start thinking about what they are saying.

Honestly, that's such a BS statistic that it's not even funny. It's just like the claim that the average person eats 8 spiders in their sleep, or that the average man thinks about sex every three seconds.

If the aim is to force people to quit, then they ought to just have some balls and ****ing ban it.

MrGeezer

But that wouldn't work. It's like alcohol - too firmly ingrained in society to simply ban like other less prevalent drugs. The idea is to wean people off of it gradually through education and making it inconvenient to smoke. I don't mind public bans. I just don't think an all-out ban would be any more successful than Prohibition was.

[QUOTE="pianist"]

Good. The more people who are forced to quit, the better.

If the aim is to force people to quit, then they ought to just have some balls and ****ing ban it.

[QUOTE="pianist"]

Good. The more people who are forced to quit, the better.

If the aim is to force people to quit, then they ought to just have some balls and ****ing ban it.

:o I must be rich!!! Yay.

Wait, where's my fancy car...where's my beautiful wife? :cry:

:o I must be rich!!! Yay.

Wait, where's my fancy car...where's my beautiful wife? :cry:

quadraleap

You spent all the cash for the fancy car and mail order bride on cigarettes. :P

[QUOTE="quadraleap"]

:o I must be rich!!! Yay.

Wait, where's my fancy car...where's my beautiful wife? :cry:

pianist

You spent all the cash for the fancy car and mail order bride on cigarettes. :P

Um can I have a link or anything? For some reason it isn't in the first post.

That's a good thing since I HATE smoking and less people need to shave off 11 minutes of their lives with every cigarette they smoke.gunswordfist

[QUOTE="quadraleap"]

:o I must be rich!!! Yay.

Wait, where's my fancy car...where's my beautiful wife? :cry:

pianist

You spent all the cash for the fancy car and mail order bride on cigarettes. :P

You fell for the bait....I knew that was coming...lol. :D

You fell for the bait....I knew that was coming...lol. :D

quadraleap

:lol:

Well, it is logical, right?

[QUOTE="pianist"]

[QUOTE="quadraleap"]

:o I must be rich!!! Yay.

Wait, where's my fancy car...where's my beautiful wife? :cry:

musicaz70

You spent all the cash for the fancy car and mail order bride on cigarettes. :P

:lol:

Well, it is logical, right?

pianist

Yep...and I just noticed the mail order bride part...didnt catch that fully the first time. :lol:

[QUOTE="musicaz70"][QUOTE="pianist"]

You spent all the cash for the fancy car and mail order bride on cigarettes. :P

quadraleap