Pleasure tax

April 1, 2009
BIG TAX ON CIGGS TODAY....Anyone still smoking ciggs will be needing a government bailout! Today the new tax on smokes goes into effect....not suggesting that smoking is a desireable vice, but as I last heard....ciggarettes are not deemed illegal (not just yet anyway). I view this as just another example of my governments attempt to limit, restrain, suppress, and ultimatly erradicate yet another personal, individual freedom. How odd, some circles of government are advocating a push to legalize marijuana along side a push to ban smoking ciggs??!...Could the government believe a nation stoned brainless is a safer healthier option?! All and all, with the outrageous cost for a pack of ciggs (over 5.00/pk), it's likely many of us will be cutting significantly back, or will quit and soon be joining the ranks of those with overeating obesity issues!