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In reply to the discussion: I think I found my price limit on Cigarettes. [View all]napoleon_in_rags
(3,991 posts)38. I hate the smoking tax.
Its just so punitive. I mean if were funding something that really helped, like subsidizing nicotine replacement therapies or something, that would make sense. But as it stands its just government profiting off addiction. Addiction is a disease, and the smoking tax is a disease tax. I mean if its going to provide treatment, that's one thing. But on its own its no good.
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This is my 8th week of e-cigs, and like you I smoked a pack a day for 30 years...
Tom Ripley
Feb 2013
#61
You can do it! I had an aunt and uncle who'd smoked 30 years. He went to a doctor who told him he'd
freshwest
Feb 2013
#15
My brother and BNL are both life-long smokers. They both came down with a condition.
freshwest
Feb 2013
#23
10ish years ago, I was broke and smokeless. It was food for the kids and me or cigs.
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2013
#18
Ok, not for everyone and I'm sure I'll get flamed but here's how I quit...
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#24
Oh yeah, many years ago there was a place called Shick Shadel that did it this way
xtraxritical
Feb 2013
#47