Opinions - Pissed off Smoker: Cigarettes Cost So Much

[motorhead]

Are there any other smokers in the house that are getting really pissed at the cost of smokes? I live in Canada and the price of a pack of taylor mades is well over 10 bucks and i think the price in the states is way more than what it used to be as well. I donno about europe or anywhere else but the situation here in north america is maddening.


Mods, I know talking prices is a no-no but imtalkin about cigs here so I hope its ok.


The main reason im mad, of course, is that the biggest chunk of the price is tax. While the government preaches that they are anti-tobacco and all that crap, they continue to feed off of millions of drug addicts aka smokers. Many studies argue that nicotine is more addictive than heroin or cocaine and many more users will confirm this arguement. Of the many posts in this forum that continually expose the hypocrisy of governments in their stances on drugs, no other example proves it more than the fact that they are drug dealers themselves. They raise the age you can purchase tobacco, control where it can be sold, prevent the companies from advertising, ban it from public places, even Bars!!!!!, air muliple health canada anti-smoking ads on tv, and yet they still allow the legal sale of this drug, making millions and millions of dollars. If they really wanted it gone they could just pass a bill to criminalize it, done easily enough in the parlimentry system where a majority government can pass any damn thing it pleases.


Ya smoking is bad for you, will kill you over a lifetime, i will probably quit someday,but i happen to like it at the moment. I dont get involved in alot of the anti government threads in this forum, but this blatant hypocrisy is really starting to burn me. So to avoid this from being a rant is there anyone else out there who feels the same? How long do you think the government will pull this crap before, in the end, they finally do crimianlize tobacco? I know it will happen someday, smoking is becoming less and less popular across north america. It just ticks me off to no end to see these guys make so much money off of a wickedly addictive substance while at the same time, just for example, a heroin user somewhere gets aids or hep just cuz he cant find a clean rig.


Whatever, thats my story and im stickin to it