Quoted from Box A Rox

~ Q.  Is FDA going to ban tobacco?
~ A.  No. The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act specifically states that FDA
cannot ban an entire category of tobacco products, such as cigarettes.

FDA
http://www.fda.gov/AboutFDA/Transparency/Basics/ucm194450.htm

Quoted from senders

POLLS....REALLY? POLLS.......

Quoted from CICERO

Polls tell the politician when it is ok to dictate how the minority behave.  If your personal behavior goes against the majority opinion, it must be stopped.  By force if necessary(taxing,regulating,banning,jailing).  That's how a free society works, you are subjected to the will of the majority - exactly how a constitutional republic is designed to work.

Quoted from Box A Rox

If cigarettes existed solely on the whim of polls, smoking would have gone extinct long ago!

Quoted from CICERO

Oh, the authoritarians continue to try...Taxing it out of the reach of the "average citizen" was the first attempt...But to your delight, they haven't given up!  

Quoted from Box A Rox

If cigarettes existed solely on the whim of polls, smoking would have gone extinct long ago!

Quoted Text

~Adult Smoking Rate, New York – 18% (2009)
~Number of Adult Smokers, New York – 2.6 million
~Deaths caused by tobacco, New York 2006 – 25,400
~New Yorkers alive with tobacco-caused illness – 570,000
~Annual health care expenditures caused by tobacco, New York 2006 - $8.17 billion
~Annual Medicaid expenditures caused by tobacco, New York 2006 - $5.4 billion
~Annual tobacco-caused productivity losses from premature death, New York - $6.05 billion
~Tobacco-caused health costs and productivity losses per pack of cigarettes sold - $21.91
~Annual state and federal tax burden due to tobacco-caused expenditures - $900 per household

Quoted from Box A Rox

Some Smoking Data, NY State



Lets take a look at this one piece of data:
~Annual state and federal tax burden due to tobacco-caused expenditures - $900 per household
Every smoker in NY State is costing YOU $900 per year in NY Taxes.

Want to lower taxes... then let the smokers pay the actual cost of a pack of cigarettes. Add $21.91
per pack to the Cigarette tax so that smokers, not the taxpayers will pay the real cost of
their addiction.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Want to lower taxes... then let the smokers pay the actual cost of a pack of cigarettes. Add $21.91
per pack to the Cigarette tax so that smokers, not the taxpayers will pay the real cost of
their addiction.[/b]

Quoted from Henry

Not gonna happen, the black market for tobacco already started here in NY, stores around here sell them lower then the minimum state price because they buy them out of state. The more the government gets involved the bigger the black market becomes.

Quoted Text

Smoking rates cut in half. Eight million lives saved. More than 800,000 fewer lung cancer
deaths. Fifty years after the U.S. Surgeon General first warned about the dangers of smoking,
the benefits of quitting have never been clearer.

Yet 18 percent of the population still smokes. Nearly 2,000 teenagers take up the habit every day.
n a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Theodore Holford
of the Yale School of Public Health and colleagues estimated that 17.7 million people died between
1964 and 2012 because of smoking. But they also calculated that tobacco control measures
saved 8 million lives. And the average American lives two years longer than they otherwise
would have, they said. Smoking rates have plummeted from 42 percent of the population in
1965 to 18 percent today.

Quoted from Box A Rox

Some Smoking Data, NY State



Lets take a look at this one piece of data:
~Annual state and federal tax burden due to tobacco-caused expenditures - $900 per household
Every smoker in NY State is costing YOU $900 per year in NY Taxes.

Want to lower taxes... then let the smokers pay the actual cost of a pack of cigarettes. Add $21.91
per pack to the Cigarette tax so that smokers, not the taxpayers will pay the real cost of
their addiction.

Quoted from CICERO

Man, you athoritarians are some of the scariest people on the face of this planet.  Every human being is just a statistic, a number, measured by the state and the negative impact they have.  And if you are considered a burden to the state, your behaviors must be modified.  You authoritarians are dangerous-dangerous people!!

Quoted from Henry

Yup... cries about wanting universal healthcare, then wants to tell you how to live your life.

Quoted from Box A Rox

As posted above... If I wanted to take up playing pool, I wouldn't expect the taxpayers to pay for
it.  
If I wanted to eat figs... I'd buy the figs and not expect the taxpayers to subsidise my fig addiction.
If I wanted to smoke cigarettes, I would expect to pay the full cost of those ciggs.  

I wonder why you seem happy to foot the bill for my cigarette addiction but would balk at paying for
my fig addiction???

Do you have something against figs???  

Quoted from Box A Rox

As posted above... If I wanted to take up playing pool, I wouldn't expect the taxpayers to pay for
it.  
If I wanted to eat figs... I'd buy the figs and not expect the taxpayers to subsidise my fig addiction.
If I wanted to smoke cigarettes, I would expect to pay the full cost of those ciggs.  

I wonder why you seem happy to foot the bill for my cigarette addiction but would balk at paying for
my fig addiction???

Do you have something against figs???