smoore

This is a great thread. I'm chortling through my clouds of RYO smoke. I've rolled my own smokes for 10 years now and have dodged every direct tax increase since. I roll 60+ smokes of Bali Shag (a luxury brand) with a filter on each one for $6 in 2008. That's 1987 pricing for tailor mades. If I were willing to drop to the quality level of Camel or Marlboro I could roll those 60 for $3, probably less. I'm not willing to drop my standards but the libfascist price increases have not affected me very much.

Should the US govt. regulate tobacco? Probably. Should kids be kept from smoking? Definitely! Why can't I smoke in a bar again? Oh wait, the "common good"!

Booze and smoking go together like, well... booze and smoking. WTF? Bar employees need to have a better quality of life? They work in a fucking BAR! They are almost unilaterally alcoholics. Fuck 'em! Let them get jobs in construction if they want to live healthy. Early to bed, early to rise...

So I'm bringing down the standard of living by smoking a legal product in my home, BARS and other businesses that support my habit? So what? You cannot simultaneously campaign for a strong environmental policy "for the planet" and any policy that keeps more of us stomping around on the planet any longer than necessary.

I'm helping by smoking. Sure, you'll pay a little in public health care to ventilate me for awhile, right up until Dr. Death comes through the door and gives me my overdose of barbiturates. Anyone against assisted suicide for smokers?

See you in hell.

Excellent point. Perhaps I should start experimenting with growing the "Red Man's Revenge" now before it becomes illegal.

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