Comments on: Tax to Save http://blog.dickharper.com/2009/06/29/ciggies/ Most excellent shines and whines Sat, 19 May 2012 14:44:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: George Poleczech http://blog.dickharper.com/2009/06/29/ciggies/#comment-4739 George Poleczech Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:11:59 +0000 http://blog.dickharper.com/2009/06/29/ciggies/#comment-4739 I quit smoking when my high school girlfriend told me I should be pulling the smoke down into my lungs, and I tried it. I coughed for a coupla days and told everyone I had a bad cold. Back then smokes were about twenty cents a pack and we tore off the white thing and lit the ragged end. My departed father-in-law quit smoking because of doctor's orders. He started dipping snuff instead and tripled his intake of nicotine; and when he had his heart attack no one would give him mouth-to-mouth for the obvious reason. Cassius Clay told us that every action generates an equal and opposite reaction, and when many people end a vice they replace it with another -- like your friend Henk. Me, I never smoked pot for the same reason that I stopped smoking tobacco, and I never used any other drugs. So, when I wanted to start drinking alcohol, I was up a creek with no vice to give up. Fortunately, Mrs Poleczech told me I cussed too much, so I stopped and have been drunk ever since. In my opinion -- regardless of whether a person smokes or not -- $5 a pack is too much. I quit smoking when my high school girlfriend told me I should be pulling the smoke down into my lungs, and I tried it. I coughed for a coupla days and told everyone I had a bad cold. Back then smokes were about twenty cents a pack and we tore off the white thing and lit the ragged end.

My departed father-in-law quit smoking because of doctor’s orders. He started dipping snuff instead and tripled his intake of nicotine; and when he had his heart attack no one would give him mouth-to-mouth for the obvious reason.

Cassius Clay told us that every action generates an equal and opposite reaction, and when many people end a vice they replace it with another — like your friend Henk. Me, I never smoked pot for the same reason that I stopped smoking tobacco, and I never used any other drugs. So, when I wanted to start drinking alcohol, I was up a creek with no vice to give up. Fortunately, Mrs Poleczech told me I cussed too much, so I stopped and have been drunk ever since.

In my opinion — regardless of whether a person smokes or not — $5 a pack is too much.

]]> By: Dick http://blog.dickharper.com/2009/06/29/ciggies/#comment-4670 Dick Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:00:11 +0000 http://blog.dickharper.com/2009/06/29/ciggies/#comment-4670 FWIW, Florida does not want to make tobacco illegal -- everyone remembers what happened during the Noble Experiment (Prohibition), the national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol from 1919 to 1933. But the ever-higher sin tax may work to create a smoke-free Florida. After all, studies show that the rate of smoking goes down as the cost of smoking goes up. Prolly the same argument about gasoline going on inside the Beltway right now. FWIW, Florida does not want to make tobacco illegal — everyone remembers what happened during the Noble Experiment (Prohibition), the national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol from 1919 to 1933. But the ever-higher sin tax may work to create a smoke-free Florida. After all, studies show that the rate of smoking goes down as the cost of smoking goes up.

Prolly the same argument about gasoline going on inside the Beltway right now.

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