Here is a news story I found. What these losers should be panicking about is the possibility of CANCER..not the fact that the cost of their cancer sticks are going up. If you smoke, stop! I know it's hard, I know it's an addiction, but there are numerous resources out there to help you. Add up how much you spend per week/month/year smoking and maybe that will be an incentive to stop. That's money that you basically flushed down the toilet and have nothing to show for it..well maybe just some black tar you might cough up or at least a smoker's cough, bad smelling clothes and discolored teeth. It's pointless. It's harmful. Not only to you, but to others! To your children, friends, family and co-workers. Who in their right mind would intentionally harm the people they love? Murders & serial killers, and you don't fit that category! This type of news story angers me. The "panic" that insues when smokes find out that the cost of smoking is going to go up. I bet they don't panic when they know that the cost of their health insurance goes up because they smoke! No..they don't. Why??? Because they are on a group plan...everyone's insurance goes up every time a smoker is added to the policy. Thanks a lot smokers! Thanks for making me pay more for my insurance because you have an addiction that can lead to a potentially terminal illness. I'm sorry(slightly), but I have no sympathy for someone who finds themselves faced with health issues due to smoking. You knew the risks, you knew it could/would happen. It shouldn't be a shock if/when you develop health issues. Some smokers are hospitalized or have to have surgery or be on an oxygen tank or have a near death experience and as soon as they step out of the hospital they are back to smoking! Idiots! Get help. They need to make smoking so ungodly expensive that no one can afford to smoke. They also need to make them virtually unavailable. Right now you can get them anywhere any time of the day or night. Ok I'm done:)
Smokers flood lines prior to tax hike Quit lines around country are feeling the surge
WASHINGTON (AP) - Expect a wait when calling the Indiana stop-smoking hot line: Smokers are flooding the lines in a panic over an increase in the tobacco tax, leading to record-level weekly calls.
Quit lines around the country are feeling the surge, according to an informal survey by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Michigan's quit line itself had to quit -- working, that is. It ran out of money in mid-March after logging more than 65,000 callers in five days.
The campaign said Arkansas stopped general advertising of the quit line to keep up with a weekly call volume that quadrupled between January and March.
Price surges typically spur would-be quitters to take the plunge.
The group estimates that about 1 million adults will quit as a result of the tax increase.
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