The tobacco industry is not happy with the way Australia got its residents to quit smoking
May 20, 2016 23:32:32 #
May 21, 2016 06:03:58 #
Best not to start, Opps!, don't tell them that, they'll be suing me for not giving their product a 30 yr. trial.
May 21, 2016 08:38:06 #
Canada is not too happy that people are quitting. They are talking about taxing ecigs because they are losing money with cig. sales dropping
with so many people using the healthier ecigs.The gov.,for the people! Not!!
with so many people using the healthier ecigs.The gov.,for the people! Not!!
May 21, 2016 09:55:38 #
I started when I was 11 years old. I stopped when I was 37 years old, 33 years ago.
When I started cigarettes were less than 50¢ a pack. I quit when they went to 75¢ not because of the price increase. I can't believe that people have the habit so bad that they'll pay $10 or more per pack.
I thought eCigs contain nicotine?
I am very happy I quit. Never looked back.
When I started cigarettes were less than 50¢ a pack. I quit when they went to 75¢ not because of the price increase. I can't believe that people have the habit so bad that they'll pay $10 or more per pack.
I thought eCigs contain nicotine?
I am very happy I quit. Never looked back.
May 21, 2016 12:21:56 #
Started when Camels were 20 cents a pack. Quit almost 50 years ago when a carton of sea stores went from $1.00 a carton to $1.10 a carton. Best thing I ever did (quitting that is).
May 21, 2016 13:08:24 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
The cigarette industry was sued incessantly in the USA, and that is the reason for the price increases. Also Local and State Governments took advantage of the tax increases from cigarettes, and shifted the revenues away from its intended projects. Instead let certain overseers use them for favored charities they sponsored. Much of the tax money was outright stolen by one prominent person who was dismissed. I don't smoke at all. But the cigarette industry has caused deaths by lung cancer and has links to corruption with tax money. The Asian Market overseas is now the cigarette's industry biggest market now. It is a monetary bonanza for them. And no marketing restrictions.
May 22, 2016 00:39:29 #
lenben
Loc: Seattle
Cigarettes are a terrific money maker for governments. They collect serious taxes from the sales, cigarette smokers generally are healthy during their working years and so work and pay taxes, and then they have the generosity to quickly die of lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases close to retirement age so they do not collect social security and medicare benefits. The opposite is true for alcoholics. They are unreliable workers, get a host of ills while young and cost society way in excess of the taxes collect on their drinking.
May 23, 2016 16:35:38 #
exakta56
Loc: Orford,New Hampshire
If you find the cigarette industry to be invasive, look up what Pepsi and Coca Cola are doing in third world countries. Sugary soft drinks for kids with no dental hygiene tradition. Rotting teeth in three and four year olds. Kinda makes you proud, don't it?
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