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daveake 05:55 pm UTC 04/03/09 |
| In reply to: | re: Widow gets 145 000 000 $ from Philip Morris - steven_stuart 05:29 pm UTC 04/03/09 |
| It's a stupidity tax. Should be higher. The smoking bans at places of work etc. were a long time coming and well overdue, so now they have far less scope for polluting the lungs of the rest of us. Dave > It does seem unfair that the UK National Health Service is > funded by the ridiculous taxes on cigs, when at the same > time they discriminate against those who smoke. > > > > > > > > > It is one more case of the liberal mentality where people > > > > don't take responsibility for their actions and > > > > irresponsible people use the court system as a lottery. > > > > > > But you have to remember that some people who have > > > recently died from smoking grew up in an age when doctors > > > were used to push cigs. In America they had adverts saying > > > that more doctors smoked Camel than any other brand. > > > Doctors used to tell nervous pregnant women to take up > > > smoking as a way of calming their nerves. > > and if people choose to do that that is their fault. > > People have known forever that smoking was not good for > > their health. And even if they didn't... nothing illegal > > was done so it is not the tobacco companies fault if > > someone gets cancer. If the Liberals really cared like > > they pretend to they would ban Tobacco instead of funding > > their pet projects by taxing it. Liberals need people to > > smoke or they won't be able to fund all the things that > > they are funding by taxing it. By funding Children's > > health care by taxing tobacco they are making it necessary > > for people to keep smoking... proving they don't give a > > damn about smoker's health. Smoking tobacco is far less > > healthy than smoking pot, but one is legal and one isn't. > > It's all hypocrisy. > > So what? It is a legal substance (I don't smoke) > > > | |
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