Posted on 05/13/2016 4:10:53 PM PDT by Drango
(Excerpt) Read more at gallup.com ...
58% of smokers would like to quit
72% feel they are addicted
58% of smokers feel unjustly discriminated against 'cause of high taxes (ha ha)
It was a better country when more people smoked. My comment is not about smoking. My comment is about freedom and government control.
And there was less obesity.
I feel compelled to say nice graph...
America was truly the land of the free and the home of the brave back when everyone smoked cigars and cigarettes, drank beer, spanked their kids, and put in an honest day’s work for a living.
And virtually every known disease in the lower 48 had been eradicated or could be successfully treated.
It’s easy to quit smoking. I did it nearly 45 years ago.
Start dipping!
“58% of smokers feel unjustly discriminated against ‘cause of high taxes (ha ha) “
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Huh ?
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.....”72% feel they are addicted”
Personally am a bit ticked off as I found quitting was one ‘H’ of a lot easier than peer advice indicated. That advice was adamant quitting was too difficult. I probably could have quit years earlier if I’d tried, but I didn’t want to go through all the ‘H’ I was told I would have to endure.
I smoked minimum a pack a day for 50 years, and finally said I wasn’t going to pay the outrageous taxes to support Leftist nonsense anymore, and stopped cold. Never smoked again. None of the stated withdrawals. None of the trauma I’d been told I would have to go through. It was easy actually.
That was just over seven years ago. I’m doing just fine. No associated maladies whatsoever.
Former smoker here. I use a vape now with steadily decreasing levels of nicotine. I’m not “old” but the health differences are Very Pronounced. Especially lung capacity.
I’m a little confused by the 8% of people that have to know smoking is bad for health but still say they would start smoking again. Maybe it’s just that the health affects haven’t caught up with them yet?
With all that tax revenue lost, it looks like BIGGOV Inc. might start subsidizing smoking LOL
I’ve been vaping for about 4 years now. North Carolina slapped a tax on the eLiquids with Nicotine. Like you, I have decreased my nicotine from 2.4 to 1.2. Next order of eLiquid, I am going down to .8
Can’t say on quitting...there MAY be a genetic component that makes it harder to quit for some people.
As some predicted, the Big Tobacco Settlement of 1998 failed.
It was supposed to provide education and clinics to curb smoking and wipe it out. [Another Lib idea that looked good on paper.] Instead, many states took the money and spent it on other things.
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I quit in January 2003, mainly due to the increasing costs, and also health reasons.
I do miss the ‘enjoyment’ factor at times, but not enough to light up again.
One leads to two leads to a pack leads to carton leads to a habit.
I couldn’t imagine how states would balance their budgets if most smokers quit; look at what happened to the postal service when people opted for more reliable on-line bills and such. The tobacco taxes are so high (especially here in NJ and NY) that it must play a big role in budgeting...
It took a dissected ascending aortic aneurysm and near death on the operating table to get me to quit. Now congestive heart failure and emphysema. I am damned that not a day goes by when the nicotine craving does not rear its ugly head after three years without.
I smoke cigars and love it....have no reason to quit.
They are all quality cigars....all natural...no chemicals or fillers...
So I have determined they are heathly for me....
Be happy that your experience was so easy, but don’t use your unusually easy time of quitting to predict what other will experience.
The majority of smokers who are having trouble quitting are actually nicotine addicts like I was and will go through significant and terrible withdrawal symptoms.
It’s worth it, of course, but usually not very easy like it was for you. That’s why there are so many smokers that can’t quit. Duh...
What you are telling me in your response is the same I was told for many years by peers. As I said I wish I hadn’t listened to them as quitting was so easy for me.
I say encourage people to quit IF THEY WANT TO QUIT, rather than discourage them with all the negative rhetoric.
I just stick to crack. Nothing picks you up like a hit off a crack pipe.
I didn’t have any withdrawal symptoms besides the craving. I smoked for 20 years, and never tried to quit. I had no idea it was going to be so hard, and had overestimated my will power. It pissed me off and made me want to quit more. No way the vape thing would have helped me, but after 3 months cold turkey I went and got 0% nicotine vape set up to help with missing the physical ritual when around smokers and beers. It’s dorky looking but what the hell, it helps.
Freegards
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