Re: Smoking

On 5/16/12 2:07 PM, bardi wrote:
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> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ellen Rawson <silme13@yahoo.com
> <mailto:silme13@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> --- On Wed, 5/16/12, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3@ckt.net
> <mailto:polycarpa3@ckt.net>> wrote:
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> > Well, I'm not going to live in that city, and if it goes
> > Federal, which with the "sin-taxes" on tobacco everywhere
> > already, it looks as if it will, I may just go find myself a
> > desert island and take along a lot of tobacco and mint
> > seeds.
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> You would hate to live in the UK, where tobacco costs so much more
> than in the US. A pack of cigarettes here averages out at about
> £7.50, or US $12.00.
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> Ellen
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> But even when I smoked (and I was a three pack a day to cold turkey
> person) that made sense where you had NHS. The odds are that smokers
> will get sick, and this helps pay for the health in advance.

Pffffffffft! They say even here that all the extra taxes on tobacco are
for the medical expenses. HA! I'll bet if I'd gotten lung cancer or
etc. before I was 65, nobody would have offered to kick all that tax
money back for my medical expenses!

And the only "sick" I've been so far, at age 68, was one little tumor
under my ear (that started well before I smoked), one recurrence of the
same one, and a gall bladder shot (of course, that was my fault too,
being fat, so they probably should raise the taxes on food). Oh, and
Clinical Depression, but I hear there's an antidepressant (not nicotine)
in tobacco smoke, so that probably _helped_, before I got onto the
antidepressant drugs.


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Sibyl Smirl
mailto:polycarpa3@ckt.net
Asperges me, Domine!