Cargo Commando
Well-Known Member
I'll start this by saying yes, I am a smoker and have been one from conception on up. My parents were smoking from day 0 and continue to smoke now. I was raised in the environment and started smoking at 12 (thanks mom n dad!). All was good in my teens, 20's, 30's, and even early forty's. Yet now my health is heading south and I would love to quit. Easier said than done. I associate smoking with every aspect of my day. Traffic jam? Light up...Pretrip? Light up...Grab a coffee? Light up. When it comes down to it I do understand what I'm doing to my body yet continue to participate in this activity. Then along comes E-CIGS. They're not that bad and if you experiment a 'lil you'll find one that suits your taste, but I have yet to convert. Its just not the same. I just might have to consider it now...The Feds are gonna add another tax of .94 per pk soon, and the demographic that tends to smoke will not be able to absorb this additional cost (as a side note, the system as of now pisses me off that those taxes go to miscellaneous groups that have nadda to do w/ smoking...talk about taxation without representation!). Outrageous sin taxes tend to promote bootlegging, so wtf??! I'm the type that navigates well in the underground, but why force me there? If and when the new tax takes effect that's where I'm headed. But, until I make a personal choice to quit, I think the government is overstepping the boundaries on choice and intervention. I might quit when IM READY, not when they try to dictate that I gotta. And for the record I do have health insurance and pay for my smoking. So, evil? I think so. But the government AND industry created this conundrum, and I refuse to be the fall guy/gal.