Smoke if you can pay the price

I don't smoke, it makes me sick to be near it, but what I don't understand is if they do all this stuff for cigarettes why don't they do the same thing for the other tobacco stuff?

I think this is a good idea. I don't smoke, and I can't stand the smell. It also hurts my throat when I breath it in. The reason these increase in steps to reduce smoking is beneficial is because people will become more aware of the literal and metaphorical price they are paying. Smokers hear all about how their lungs will collapse and their health is impaired by smoking, but these are just words compared to the apparent (I don't see it) pleasure of smoking. For me, I try to relate it to something I find pleasurable like eating chocolate or something. If there were commercials everywhere about how chocolate increases the likelihood of let's say something random like liver cancer or something, I would simply nod and toss that information aside because I enjoy chocolate so much, right? So, with the increase in price for a pack of cigarettes, a smoker will hesitate and think about the choice. Some smokers are addicted and will not care, but I'm sure a fair share of smokers will recognize the link between those ads and the jacked up prices and the cold looks from passerbys who are harmed from second-hand smoke.


I understand that these changes injure the tobacco manufacturers, but I think that the people who perpetuate this habit of smoking should think twice about what their doing. Yeah, it brings in money, but at the cost of endangering lives of people who are swayed by their passions and cravings. Can't you find some other industry to reel in money and actually help people?

i was a smoker - not a chain smoker but i did smoke ... it annoyed my wife but i did not bother till i had a problem of blockage of arteries ... i just quit the habit overnight ... it can be done, i have seen others do it and i did it myself ... but, the ban never becomes effective because there are vested interests at work and they would never agree to bans ...

Hopefully the new bill the President signed giving regulation to the FDA will help. But if some of the commercials they run here doesn't help, I don't know what will.

All these smokers eventually die of cancer. 5/7/2009.

Yeah, but they keep on smoking them anyway. Trouble is sometimes they get some of us non-smokers too.

a friend of mine recently died of cancer ... he just did not give up smoking till his last minutes ... it was pathetic for his family ..

Would the price we pay for smoking be reciprocated with a gift for humanity? That our intention to reduce stress be manifested through art? Or are we too addicted to an illusion that hides our relevant need for positive connections free of animosity? Please have faith in a health care system and let it open our eyes to see what we may achieve free of carcinogens - free us please, so we may have longevity and breathe peace.

Omega3_2yew/ I gave up smoking with the grace of God through prayer in 1988. I have never touched another cigarette or any tobacco since and I'm
free from all that all because I believe in the power of prayer. Even John Wayne and Burt Reynolds were heavy smokers and where are they now?
You guessed it, they lost their life to CANCER. 6/7/2009.

Burt's not dead yet.