O.K. Smokers here in Yahoooland, are you getting fed up with all the goodie goodie anti smoking taxes and laws

Answer 1

you bet I am !!! Diesel smoke is a lot more carcinogenic than tobacco smoke, but these same control freak ******* will go out and buy a diesel powered pickup or car, with a cell phone glued to their ears blowing radio frequency radiation into their empy heads and think nothing of the millions of trucks, trains, tractors, busses, jets, and turbo-prop aircraft bombarding their lungs. I hope all of you nicophobiacs live to be 100 and spend your last 30 years rotting in some fleabag nursing home bored out of your altzeimers eaten mind!
The banning of any substance only fuels organized crime - for example:alcohol (in the 30's), cannibis, and drugs. The control freaks started with seatbelts, have moved to tobacco, and who knows what will be next:? They look down on us "sinners" while they spread V.D. and HIV by sleeping with anything that has two legs - and some aren't even THAT picky. If you want someone to control, try CONTROLLING YOURSELF !!!

Answer 2

Where I live in Wisconsin there has been a smoking ban for awhile. You can't smoke in restraunts at all unless they make so much money from alcohol. They tried to pass it where you couldn't be able to smoke in bars or clubs anymore but that got shot down because of all the bars in this city. They said that they would lose money if the smokers had to go outside to smoke and there would always be a crowd of people standing by the door lighting up and making a mess with the butts. Heck, I even worked at a place that tried to ban smoking on all their property, even in your own personal vehicle. Well, no one liked that idea since it is your own property that they were trying to ban you from smoking. No one would have minded it if it was only on their property and was allowed in your vehicle.

As for the taxes, the companies don't care about the people that smoke. They just want to make money somehow and what better way to do it than to raise the prices since they know smokers will buy them anyway. Now with different cigarrette companies coming out with the flavored cigarrettes, they are getting the younger kids wanting to try the chocolate or cherry flavored cigarrettes. Yep I know they say that they don't want the kids to try them but I really don't know that many people who have smoked for years that are willing to try these flavored cigarrettes. Of course they are for the kids, why else would they be making them.

Those that do smoke and are 18 are old enough to make their own desicion and are considered an adult. So if they want to smoke they can. If a restruant does not allow smoking, they will find another restraunt that does allow it and yes, someday, those restraunts will lose money with people going elsewhere.

Answer 3

What some do not realize, it that this is just the beginning. Just wait until the majority faces a similar issue(like taking their burgers away) until then we'll ignore other health risk factors such as perfumes that are carcinogenic(is in about everything), or obesity which is now the number one killer in the nation. Also, smokers get the shaft in the sense of how they contribute to the economy yet are looked down upon. Think about how much each State benefits from cigarette tax...and people wonder how such a dangerous habit can thrive...ugh!! Where the hell is the statistics on the contribution of smokers on a state and federal level..I never hear about that.And to pay higher insurance rates for smoking? What about Joe schmo out there with 30 pounds over his estimated body weight? "Oh, but obesity only effects the obese, smokers harm us with second hand".....BS,how does the number one killer (Obesity)not effect our nation?? Contradictions is what irritates me most!

Answer 4

I feel descriminated against because i choose to smoke. They want me to pay higher taxes and for programs that everyone uses (even non-smokers). Non-smokers think it's ok for this to happen but what if they start taxing because they don't like the way your hair is cut, or you are too fat so you are a health risk. Must pay more than ole skinny over there. Would that be fair. I think not. Point is that you have to draw that line somewhere. Juniorram is missing the point up there. Some smokers do own their own resturants and bars and would love to have only smokers as customers but the law prevents this from happening.

Answer 5

HELL NO! Any one who wants to incriminate and jail a person for simply getting intoxicated is right out full of sickness and hate and the stinkers who make weed illegal are the ones who should be JAILED! Damned oppressive TYRANNICAL legislators like that should be HANGED! IT IS TIME TO DECRIMINALIZE WEED AND LET PEOPLE WHO ABIDE BY THE LAW BUT SMOKE WEED OFF THE HOOKS OTHERWISE THIS IS NOT A FREE COUNTRY AND IT IS TIME FOR A BLOODY WAR ! ! The government HAS NO RIGHT TO TELL ME WHETHER I CAN GET HIGH OR NOT AND THEY ONLY USE THAT FOR LEVERAGE OVER THE PEOPLE AND THEY SHOULD BE PUBLICLY HANGED FOR IT!! Yes that's right I said so ! ! The time is ripe for the law abiding citizens of America to RISE IN STRENGTH AND FLEX A LITTLE MUSCLE AND TAKE SOME RIGHTS FOR OUR OWN!! WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO TAKE BACK FROM THE BANKER DICTATORS. Making it illegal just to get high is not only totally with out reason, but is only a means of getting legally spawned power and leverage over the people who use it. There is so much they can use against those people including especially when they are applying for a job!! I think we should hurt those who refuse to decriminalize it and we incriminate the incriminators and see how they like it! BLOOD FOR BLOOD! Then things may change because in Washington and in other upper offices MIGHT IS RIGHT.

Answer 6

Yup! The smoking ban started here in Hawaii on Nov. 16 and it's a huge pain in the butt. We used to be able to smoke in bars, etc. and now it's not allowed AT ALL. We have to be 20 feet from all doorways in order to light up. I went to a bar the other night and we had to go outside to smoke. There was a sign in the bar that said, "Due to losses from the smoking ban, water is no longer free." They're charging $2 for bottled water now! I can see why the bar is doing that, but it really sucks that they're losing revenue because of the ban. Ugh.

Answer 7

No, actually as a smoker who was told to I have irreversible lung damage & yet I still can't give it up, if it stops 1 person or prevents 1 person from smoking I'm for it. But before I found out I was slowly dieing at age 40 I did feel like you

Answer 8

Yes I am. Why should it be the responsibility of the government to try and dissuade us from using tobacco? I agree that smoking in public places is not right, but why try and force people to quit smoking by making it an economic hardship? Let people do what they want and we will have a happier society.

Answer 9

I used to smoke, smoker's should be allowed to smoke in bars and clubs, but I think it should be limited to smoking areas in restaurants. If smokers rights are so important and then smokers should have smoking only restaurants, hotels, etc. Owned and operated by smokers.

Answer 10

No , I quit 9 months ago after smoking for 38 years .