Smoking should be tax free for seinors
Okay, this post started because last night my dad got angry because me and my mom did not want to sit up at 3:30 in the morning while he smoked ciggaretts - and we were not going to leave him smoking while we went to bed. He was still mad at me this morning, starting into growling at me about ciggaretts at 8 am, then again at 9:30. I support that they smoke, I mean, hell, they've smoked for over 60 years. The US Army got dad hooked by dropping him in trenches in other countries in the winter with ciggarettes and a book of matches in his MRE's (Meals Ready to Eat for anyone that don't know).
One of the doctors that cared for dad after his stroke flat out told him, "I'm not going to tell you to quit because at this point it would be worse on you if you did, but try to cut back a little." Dad has, down from 4 packs a day to 1 pack a day -- sometimes only 1/2 a pack.
People are always screaming about the fact that we have to raise the price of ciggarettes to keep them out of the hands of minors. Minors that have since the dawn of time stole money from their mother's purse to buy stuff they can't afford. So how does it keep the ciggarettes out of their hands to raise the price? And if that's the reason, then why don't we have a program where seniors can get a senior discount that knocks the tax off the cigarettes?
Second hand smoke is said to kill, what they don't tell you, but that the doctors know (I saw it on a lung cancer poster in a doctor's office back in 2001) is that only 6% of the population of the US have the proper genetic makeup to make them susceptible to developing lung cancer from smoking. Thre are more people (1 in 10 I think I heard the other day?) that are deathly allergic to a bee sting than there are peopel bothered by second hand smoke - why ain't there laws preventing people that have honey bee hives from allowing their bees to fly into public places where they might sting someone? Instead those little death darts are allowed to fly anywhere they want completely unimpeeded.
Drinking and driving kills, why are there not massive taxes each year jacking up the price of booze? You can't tell me those little teenagers that are stealing ciggarette money are not also copping beer money. Right now we pay roughly $7 a pack for cigarettes, how much does the guy that killed the family of four pay for his six pack of beer on the way home from the bar?
One of the doctors that cared for dad after his stroke flat out told him, "I'm not going to tell you to quit because at this point it would be worse on you if you did, but try to cut back a little." Dad has, down from 4 packs a day to 1 pack a day -- sometimes only 1/2 a pack.
People are always screaming about the fact that we have to raise the price of ciggarettes to keep them out of the hands of minors. Minors that have since the dawn of time stole money from their mother's purse to buy stuff they can't afford. So how does it keep the ciggarettes out of their hands to raise the price? And if that's the reason, then why don't we have a program where seniors can get a senior discount that knocks the tax off the cigarettes?
Second hand smoke is said to kill, what they don't tell you, but that the doctors know (I saw it on a lung cancer poster in a doctor's office back in 2001) is that only 6% of the population of the US have the proper genetic makeup to make them susceptible to developing lung cancer from smoking. Thre are more people (1 in 10 I think I heard the other day?) that are deathly allergic to a bee sting than there are peopel bothered by second hand smoke - why ain't there laws preventing people that have honey bee hives from allowing their bees to fly into public places where they might sting someone? Instead those little death darts are allowed to fly anywhere they want completely unimpeeded.
Drinking and driving kills, why are there not massive taxes each year jacking up the price of booze? You can't tell me those little teenagers that are stealing ciggarette money are not also copping beer money. Right now we pay roughly $7 a pack for cigarettes, how much does the guy that killed the family of four pay for his six pack of beer on the way home from the bar?
posted by Sandra at 12:57 PM
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