Cigarette prices have gone up to over a dollar more and they are about to be raised another dollar. Of course this raising price may discourage people to smoke less, but will it really benefit in the long run. People who smoke cigarettes are not going to quit because of the raise in prices. The price raise is only going to encourage the increase in debts that people already have. Taking a legal addiction and taxing it is going to only hurt people more than it helps. May this addiction be affordable or not, people are just going to go to further lengths to sustain it. Soon there may be people robbing gas stations for something as small as a carton of cigarettes. Addictions are bad, but to increasingly tax something that is legal and sustainable like cigarettes is wrong. I believe the freedom to support this legal addiction is of ones own choice and should not be manipulated by the government.
Jennifer Gordon
CPO2001
1:05pm
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Lisa Petty
POS 1041
T/R 11:35am
Cigarettes are skyrocketing in price lately and something that I found out recently shocked me. While researching my policy comparison on health care, I found out that "SCHIP" (an organization that will aid children without health care) has a part in the increasing of taxes on cigarettes. So this means that the people buying them are helping out people who need health care! It’s odd how this country functions!
RAISE THE TAX! FIGHT YOUR ADDICTION! Stops kids from buying them and get them back out of society. Our government is trying to tax the rich for working hard and making money when thats what were born to want to do and if your going to do that then why not go ahead and tax the smokers!
Jason Spiewak
POS1041
T/R 11:35
The purpose of this tax is to make a particular portion of society pay for something the government wants done. It isn't to stop people from smoking, the kids who go get a pack when they are underage are already paying quite a markup then what you or I might pay. This tax is barely acceptable, and even more completely unacceptable is the portion of society targeted, smokers, tend to be people who qualify for SCHIP, so they are paying, in part, for a service they may use, if the number of available slots are ever actually filled. Legalize pot, tax the bejesus out of it, get more bang for the buck there than with this. Go California, lead this country into something better than Ebonics as a language.
Michael Desilets
CPO 2001
T/R 8:35
I dont get it sometimes. The governemt has programs in place to encourage people to stop smoking. Yet, at the same time the governement depends on cigarettes for a large part of its revenue. I dont think it is right to tax only cigarettes, because the majority of smokers are poor already. What does this really accomplish?
Robbie Schmalfuss
CPO2001 T/R 1:05
I hear what you are saying, but then I think about that women smokiing that is 8 months pregnant, or that old man with the hole in his troat still smoking through it. those images in my head tell me that something must be done. our health care prices have sky rocketed because of people having issues because of their smoking. So when you think of how much smokers are affecting your pockets how do you feel?
Hagins, Jonathan C.
pos1041
1135
I hear what you are saying, but then I think about that women smokiing that is 8 months pregnant, or that old man with the hole in his troat still smoking through it. those images in my head tell me that something must be done. our health care prices have sky rocketed because of people having issues because of their smoking. So when you think of how much smokers are affecting your pockets how do you feel?
Hagins, Jonathan C.
pos1041
1135
I would complelty agree with this. Taxing a legal addiction is bascially a stab at people who smoke. It is only going to increase peoples debts even more, people arnt just going to quit smoking they are just going to start complaning about it. I think that the goverment has to much control over this.
Shannon Todd
POS2001
9:00A.M.
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