Cigarettes: Which brand do you smoke?

Originally Posted by Nadir

Why should non-smokers pay for smokers health problems? And yes, they do use the money from taxing tobacco towards smokers health problems.

They use money from tobacco proceeds for a lot of things.

Originally Posted by Nadir

nobody said society is free or problems except for smoking lol. but let's just say i buy your argument - and in that case I AM GLAD people smoke. It provides more money for all the rest of us YAY. I won't complain if it means better health care, better schools - all cus of tobaco. go team tobacco! and smokers - i tip my hat to you - you are giving up your LIVES so that all of us can have better healthcare, better tuition, better roads, better everything. We need to erect a giant cigarette in your honour smokers. Thank you thank you thank you - but again, please don't smoke in my presence.

Patronize, b!tch, and moan all we want to Nadir, but the reality is that this is a cash cow and it isnt going away anytime soon.
I will concede that there is no reason to smoke right next to you if it bothers you. Yet you fail to see the economic side of this in a mature way.

Originally Posted by Nadir

again, i don't really care if there are smokers in the world. but i am not a big fan of the fact that it affected my health and there are non-smokers dying because of smoker's habits. whatever spin you put on how great it is for the economy, i don't care. i would rather breathe.

Again people die from a lot of things. If it has affected your health than for that I am truly sorry.

Listen friends... I agree with you folks on a lot of things on this issue. Yet I am clearly trying to make a point of something you folks have overlooked. That is the economical reality of tobacco to any govt in the world. Any effort that govts are making or saying to curb health problems due to smoking realted illness is an affront to moral governance. You will have politicians who are total advocates of anti-smoking coming to realize the fiscal reality of tobacco income and become lacklustre in such crusades. Right now and years to come, there is way too much money for any state to take a pass on Tobacco revenues.
This is my point. Disagree with it, you can. I dont like such predicaments either! But this is bottom line truth.