Nightmare of crack nicotine

Washington Times ^ | 8/29/02 | Jack Wheeler

[kattracks]

In my book, smoking tobacco is unfathomably stupid. About the only thing more lethally dumb are extortionate taxes on tobacco.

Egged on by anti-tobacco activists, politicians in state after state around the country are indulging in an orgy of greed. Tobacco taxes have become a golden goose for government coffers. With a city tax alone of $1.50, a pack of cigarettes now costs $7.50 in New York City. The tobacco companies' standard objection is that higher taxes will lead to more cigarette smuggling. The anti-tobacco crowd's standard response is to demand adjacent cities and states have ever-higher tobacco taxes as well.

[brat]

Please join the Smoker's Tea Party by getting your cigarettes on line from overseas. I use yesmoke.com and pay $14.95 per carton for my Camel 100's. Some brands are cheaper! They are reliable. Order in large amounts and frequently as they do get out of your brand and you have to wait to reorder. Also, I pay the $2 extra for priority shipping....supposed to be here in 6-8 days. They took 10 days to arrive in NV. Still they arrived and are excellent. Let's show the government that we're not going to take it anymore. Let's deprive them of our tax dollars that they use to support every socialist program they can come up with except smoker's health! Spread the word.

[Destro]

Awesome article.

[kattracks]

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[uglybiker]

I use yesmoke.com and pay $14.95 per carton for my Camel 100's.

That comes out to about $1.50 a pack.

I'm still makin' my own and paying about 75 cents.

Nico-Nazis be damned.

[FairWitness]

Well, there it is, a blueprint for a new illegal drug industry. I have been predicting a re-run of prohibition, but hadn't thought about the "crack" angle. This is scary.

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[JediGirl]

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[SkyRat]

Now, are we gonna make the same stupid mistake with nicotine or do we stop it before it comes to the first deaths by "crack nicotine" ?

Anyone wanna bet?

[CDHart]

I quit smoking in 1998, after 35 years, when I was diagnosed with lung cancer and given less than a year to live. Thanks to God, good doctors and a special diet, I'm still here. And I still want a cigarette in the worst way sometimes. I think it's like being an alcoholic: you take one day at a time.

Carolyn

[WaterDragon]

Could be I'm just not getting it. Most smokers aren't looking for evermore-intense "highs" from nicotine. They just want the fix on a regular basis through the day. Cigarettes do the job for most. Crack nicotine? Sounds like a new designer drug to attract the "daring".

A few smokers I know are getting great bargains from Indian tribes, such as joessmokes, I think it's called.

Has anyone in this country ever believed that the antismokers, the tax-the-smokers, the sue-the-tobacco-company folks actually give a rip about the health of smokers? And all of them are just too dumb to realize that smokers won't pay those high taxes.

One thing concerns me. The left wouldn't mind seeing smokers get into smuggling. The left hates our rule of law, anyway, and if they can encourage a lawless element, they'll consider it a bonus.

[SkyRat]

Could be I'm just not getting it. Most smokers aren't looking for evermore- intense "highs" from nicotine. They just want the fix on a regular basis through the day. Cigarettes do the job for most. Crack nicotine? Sounds like a new designer drug to attract the "daring".

The question is, if a regular smoker can't afford normal ciggarettes anymore, how long till he is desperate enough to try crack nicotine for the daily fix?

I'm a smoker, although I tend to have 6 to 12 months breaks before I start smoking again for 3 months or so. When I'm forced to stop although I don't want I would probably start chewing my fingernails till they bleed. I'm not proud of that, but it's the truth. Daily fix is a mighty motivator when you don't get it

[Junior]

Wow. A How-To dissertation on how to distill the drug, and a sales pitch on how lucrative such a drug would be. Seems to me, this guy wants to kick-start the nicotine-crack industry.

[WaterDragon]

But there are the Indian tribes, and as one poster here noted, overseas sources. It really isn't true that smokers have to pay those taxes. In fact, that's exactly why tax revenue from tobacco goes down (I've heard) when the taxes go through the ceiling.

[SkyRat]

Seems to me, this guy wants to kick-start the nicotine-crack industry.

I dont think so. What he told is nothing new. As it has been said in the article, every high school student could do it. It's not really a high classified secret.

He only describes what could happen, what is going to happen, if the taxs on ciggarretts rise enough to make the junkies desperate.

This is what happened during the alcohol prohibition.

[SkyRat]

It really isn't true that smokers have to pay those taxes

Not now, true. I think they have to, sooner or later.

Wanna bet?

[mfulstone]

The author is incredibly misinformed.

Nicotine in such concentrations would kill immediately. One drop of it in solution on the skin can kill.

[OXENinFLA]

I thought it read like a new product line a Cigarette company was working on.

[Wolfie]

I have been predicting a re-run of prohibition

You've been "predicting" a re-run of Prohibition? The current re-run under the moniker Drug War somehow escaped your attention?

[FairWitness]

The subject was nicotine and smoking, but thanks anyway.