I was referring to the ridiculous tax percentages of alcohol and tobacco. Either way, if it continues to be a successful business it will get taxed through the roof.
The taxation of alcohol and tobacco was a way to gain extra revenue under the guise deterring the population from using the products. The producers and the gov. knew full well people would still buy the products due to the addictive nature of it.
It's true that the average person thinks they're smarter than the average person. I tend to have faith in the intelligence of the human race though I think we have all been idiots in some way at some time. I just can't accept that so many people are just dumb and that's the end of it. We all have potential.
I think it's totally reasonable to not want people to smoke around you but I don't see how they can be banned considering cigarettes aren't.
George Burns lived until he was 92 and I think that dood slept with a lit stogie in his mouth.
Some people are 80 and smoke everyday. Some people never smoked a day in their life but have a hole in their neck at age 44 due to second hand smoke. Logically, there's no benefit from smoking. Obviously it's an addictive substance, and so quitting for some people is easier said than done. So just don't start.George Burns lived until he was 92 and I think that dood slept with a lit stogie in his mouth.
My own dentist and doctor told me that smoking doesn't directly cause death. What it DOES do is it acts like steroids for whatever else is going on. If you die of smoking related cancer, you either already had cancer or were pre-determined to get it BUT smoking makes it more aggressive. More facts that the truth commission don't want you to know.
Not saying smoking is healthy, it's not. Smoking is stoopid and stinky and does things like make it take longer to heal from injuries, line your lungs with tar making it more difficult to breathe, and forces you to wash the wall in your house/apartment more often. I do agree with step 1 here. If you're like me and on step two, consider quitting since doctors will tell you that much of the effects of smoking on your body are reversible over time.
Let's get healthy FGC!
Yeh I'm a type 1 diabetic and I have no business smoking and been doing it nearly 10 years, all this talk about quiting is seriously getting me thinking.George Burns lived until he was 92 and I think that dood slept with a lit stogie in his mouth.
My own dentist and doctor told me that smoking doesn't directly cause death. What it DOES do is it acts like steroids for whatever else is going on. If you die of smoking related cancer, you either already had cancer or were pre-determined to get it BUT smoking makes it more aggressive. More facts that the truth commission don't want you to know.
Not saying smoking is healthy, it's not. Smoking is stoopid and stinky and does things like make it take longer to heal from injuries, line your lungs with tar making it more difficult to breathe, and forces you to wash the wall in your house/apartment more often. I do agree with step 1 here. If you're like me and on step two, consider quitting since doctors will tell you that much of the effects of smoking on your body are reversible over time.
Let's get healthy FGC!
Exactly my point. You're basically playing chicken with your physiology by smoking. So don't. And this is coming from a "heavy smoker".
Last I read, e-cigs are not taxed and regulated by the government.
Neither is Martian Man Hunter and you see what THAT did...
i mean that they should be treated the same way as cigarets and use should be limited in public places
The concentrated form of nicotine in the vape liquid is seriously rough stuff to get into contact with. If you get it on your skin it works like a super-powered nicotine patch and makes you queasy and ill (like you have just chain smoked 3 packs in 10 minutes) and is really dangerous. Getting it directly into your mouth/eyes/blood stream can be fatal. Nicotine itself isnt the problem there though, coming into contact with it in that form can be avoided by taking more care or precautions when handling it, i just think more people should be fed that information...
I'm a heavy smoker as well and, it has affected several things, for one the wife is sick of it, she quit years ago and now hates the smell, my kids have from time to time tried to emulate my behavior, like my 4 year old one time grabbed my pack and told her mother "I'm going to have a smoke". It definitely hurts the bank account, just by judging my smoking habit alone I smoke Marlboro Blacks, which are about 40 bucks a carton at the local store I buy from this can equal about $80 for one month, which is about $960 p/year. As for medical effects well My teeth now need a regular cleaning and turn yellow real easily, I do tend to be short of breath a lot faster now, and again can't be too good on the fact I am diabetic. I never smoke inside my home or inside even places where its allowed, I rather not clean nicotine stains off my walls every week.
I want the freedom to not have smoke blown in my face.
I love that movie.
What we see here is that you know the risks and are aware of the problems you cause yourself by being a smoker.
Because this generation doesn't give a fuck.
