Re: Smoking

On 5/16/12 2:07 PM, bardi wrote:

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Ellen Rawson <silme13@yahoo.com
<mailto:silme13@yahoo.com>> wrote:


   --- On Wed, 5/16/12, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3@ckt.net
   <mailto:polycarpa3@ckt.net>> wrote:
    >
    > 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.

   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.

   Ellen


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.