[Flaming Conservative]

I am in favor of higher cigarette taxes.
1) may motivate someone to quit.
2) it takes a lot more money to provide health care to smokers.
3) smoking stinks.
I’ve heard all the “taking away my rights” remarks, and maybe that’s so, but smoking effects other people, not just the smoker. And if people saved the money they would spend on a pack of cigarettes a day, they’d have enough to take a vacation, in a year.

[Gene Eric]

>> it takes a lot more money to provide health care to smokers.

Perhaps you should focus on your pasta intake. Ya’ know... the diabetes epidemic.

[Drango]

I am in favor of higher cigarette taxes.

So am I. The smoking mafia get their knickers in a twist when they realize it's Republicans, Tea Party, and Libertarians as well as the donkeys that march into voting booths, and freely vote, to increase taxes.

The recent $2 per pack increase in California was fantastic.