Former smoker giving my 2 cents here.
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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
If you want to stop people from smoking, all you need to do is attach some unreasonable tax to cigarettes. You'd be surprised just how few people would smoke if they were paying $100+ per pack of cigarettes.
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Spoken like someone who was never a smoker and has no idea how hard it is for some people to quit.
I said I would quit if packs ever hit five bucks. Guess what? I didn't. I said I would quit if they hit 7.50, and guess what? I didn't. I said I would quit when they hit ten bones. Guess what? Actually I had already quit by then. Thing is the price had zero reason to do with me quitting.
If price is the only reason you are quitting then odds are that the quit wont be successful. You don't really want to quit, you are just raging against the most recent price increase/tax. A few days later you are back smoking again.
I quit because I wasn't enjoying cigarettes and didn't want to smoke anymore.
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Originally Posted by shesus
Also, you aren't going to make people quit through taxing it higher. We were paying almost $9 a pack and we were a pack a day smokers. We didn't have a large disposable income, we had a habit that we didn't want to get kick.
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Quoted for emphasis of the above.
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Originally Posted by willravel
I've decided to shift my policy on smoking. I support a full ban.
If you want to smoke, grow it in your closet and don't get caught.
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Because that works well with pot.
