Smokers are complaining about running out of places to smoke, and the prices being jacked up. JUST QUIT. It's not impossible to quit, you're just too weak to go without. You wanna know how to make a change? DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Don't repeat the same damn actions and expect a change. Stop buying cigarettes, even if you just smoke because you enjoy it, stop going to those bars. The price will drop down again eventually. The prices aren't just being raised because of taxes. Stores and companies are using those taxes as an excuse to jack up the prices and make a bigger cut.
Then there is the taxes. It's a well established fact that smoking drastically increases the chance of you getting serious diseases, like lung cancer and emphysema. Add up the millions of dollars it costs Medicare to treat all of those effected by these diseases (just those who smoke), and the taxes really don't seem so much anymore. Not to mention the fact that smoking pisses others off. It seems that smokers are now a minority, and I'm sick of standing around on public property, then walking home coughing my guts up because some asshole smoker decided to fuck around with my lungs. Your' "right" to smoke goes well right up until it conflicts with my rights to good health. Also those who didn't fuck themselves up are deprived of hospital beds and operating theaters because smokers messed themselves up, and now want someone else to make it all better.
Don't Smoke, children.
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Very right you are fucking up others health is seriously wrong. Its not someone elses choice if they get second handed and it should be the responsibility of the smoker to make sure this does not happen. And I do agree that if I die because of smoking I dont want to take up someones hospital bed. There needs to be more smokers who take your views in the world even though you dont smoke. in fact if everyone saw the world like us it would be a better place. I'm not being hypocritical the smoking zones annoy me and so does the increased price but it would annoy me if someone was smoking in my face even as a smoker.
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