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Smokers are already paying over $5 in tax on a pack of cigarettes. It's an addicting habit that has been legal forever. I started at the age of 11. My older sister got me hooked so I wouldn't rat her out. I have an addictive personality. Meaning things I enjoy can be highly addictive to me. I do not use drugs and do not drink. I watch what I eat and my only bad vice is smoking. And you would have me punished even beyond the 5$ tax I'm paying that we all know none of it is going into education people not to smoke.

As for obese people, most (without a medical issue causing it) go to fast food restaurants. I say make fast food illegal. Shut down the fat factories!

I guess my answer is NO. They should not have to pay extra. Should chronic complainers who are at the doctors office every other day have to pay extra?

Colleen

catgirl, do you personally know every person in the world? Some people are highly addictive and it is impossible for them to quit. It's actually more destructive for them to quit an addiction than it is for them to just to keep the addiction. Consuming junk food would never work for people like that. It would not give them the same satisfaction. It will not give the same effect as smoking does. Learn something about addictions before you spout off and group all people together. Do some research. It's a medical fact that some people suffer addiction so much that they find dying easier than break an addiction and give up what may or many not be bad for them. It's well documented that many life long smokers have died in their late 90's and have never had a smoking related disease. These people smoked all the way up until their deaths.

As far as "man up", no thank you I'm not a man. How about you grow up? You come across as sounding like an immature footstomper. If this government is going to ignorantly pick on one unhealthy lifestyle choice, then it's going to have to pick on them all. The liqueur you drink, the McDonald junk food you consume, the pot you suck down to help keep you from smoking cigarettes, should all be highly taxed too. This means legalizing your replacement to cigarettes but hey, if it makes more money for this corrupt government, go for it! I'll keep my cigarettes, you can have your pot.

Lo and behold, I'm retired. I don't have to worry about a job and it's smoke free policy. Nobody held a gun to your head and made you talk stupid either.

i give you my answer after im done eating my pizza, which i just got cigarette ash all over!

I used to sell life ins. and they did pay more for it.

I am a 'light' smoker, a cigar once in awhile.. The price of tobacco products in the USA is very costly already, what should be done is take some of these taxes that are going in politician's pockets and channel it into smoker's cessation programs, after all, they would be paying for it every time they buy..

Tobacco/Firearms/alcohol and now gasoline.. These are the hardest hit..

Millions of dollars are being spent on creating obnoxious 'stop smoking' commercials with a woman talking through her hole in her neck, this is not going to make peole quit smoking, all it does is make Hollywood actors and producers richer. Instead of this money going to them, why not the smokers themselves? when they are ready to quit, they enroll in a good program that is paid for from tobacco taxes..

As far as the obese, they pay more at the gas pumps in gasoline to carry their lard azzes around town.. (just kidding, I like the fat people..They always seem so happy..

No. Because, I think that would change the dynamics of health insurance. For example: an alcoholic, a person with diabetes, drug users, etc.. Which would mean, any kind of problem should pay more.

Yes... I am a smoker (right now) and I know I am making myself unhealthy. I will have more heath issues. My chilren will have more health issues. Why should everyone else pay for my stupidity.
I quit last Jan. then life fell apart a little and I picked them back up. I need to get it together and stop this self distructive BS

Colleen

I've never smoked in my house. Even though I'm a smoker, I hate the stale smell of cigarette smoke in a house.