On 2/6/2014 3:36 PM, wrote:

On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 11:20:29 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet

Granted cigarette smoking is harmful to your health but if warning
labels and ads on TV and health education at the doctors office and in
schools is not enough then adding taxes is not going to do any thing but
prompt smokers to obtain their tobacco in another way, and that is
typically is illegal.

So you're saying that it's a complete waste of time to tax tobacco and
spend money on warnings and health education? I can't support that
suggestion at all.

Nope, that is not what he said. You did not respond to what was said at
all, you responded to what your imagination provided as a justification
for your position.

Read again what he said actually said ...

In a nutshell, and as a former smoker of 30 years with a 3 pack at day
habit the last ten ending 23 years ago, when a person continues to smoke
despite knowing the very likely consequences to their health, they are
on their own, and should have to live with the consequences of their
actions.

The warnings and health education efforts are all admirable, and have
made a remarkable dent in the number of smokers in this country. I'm all
for continuing those efforts. And I'm fine with a company, like CVS,
deciding to do business as they see fit and putting their money where
their mouth/conscience is.

They are exercising freedom of choice.

But I am totally opposed to treating those who ignore the irrefutable
data as a "social cost"; and who ignore the well known consequences of
smoking because of a pleasurable experience they refuse to overcome
because of an innate personal weakness.

Tough ****, Kemasabe, you want to be a victim, that's fine with me, but
you live with it, and leave me and mine out of it.

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