If Prop 29 in Calif. Passed, How Many People.....

.....would have stopped smoking?

In case you don't know what Proposition 29 was, it was to add $1 a pack tax on cigarettes and other tobacco products like cigars and chewing tobacco. Thankfully this prop didn't pass as the non smokers are getting wise to the tactics of these political jerks that propose these taxes. They were expecting $745 million dollars a year for this tax. It supposedly was all going to go for cancer research, and couldn't be amended for 15 YEARS!!!

Now for those of us that live in Calif., we all know that somehow these funds seem to get diverted into the general fund, and that cancer research would probably only get a small % of these funds. I want to thank all the non smokers that voted NO on this ridiculous tax.

In a way, I wish this prop would have passed, so maybe Faye would stop smoking. She said she would if 29 passed because she already has to spend $13.40 a day to feed her habit! That's almost $400 a month. I definitely would have stopped as I hardly smoke a pack in three days, so it wouldn't be that hard for me.

But I would estimate that around 30% of the smokers in Calif. would have stopped smoking or would have cut down smoking about half of what they now smoke. I'm sure the tobacco companies are glad this prop didn't get passed!

Faye smokes?! I'm surprised to hear that. $13.40 a day... Is that 2 packs?

Every year or two it is an extra tax on cigarettes or alcohol (sin tax). They are now proposing a tax on entrance to strip clubs and on table and lap dances.

How much are the taxes at the legal brothels?

Yup! 2 packs a day.

Wow.$400 a month.That's a flippin car payment.

Really?

So lets go through this: you place a $1.00 a pack tax on smokes to raise money to pay for cancer research. If people stop smoking, you raise LESS money and then have to have ANOTHER tax to make up for the lost revenue?

The President doesn't want to raise taxes on the poor. Who smokes cigarettes..........psst, the.....

POOR PEOPLE!!!!!

The $400/month is just for the cigarettes. The monthly medical cost varies. Smoking- an expensive, stinking, slow killing habit. Whatever satisfaction smokers derive, I wonder, in the end, how many of them would smoke if they really knew how painful their demise will be because this choice.

Depends. When I smoked, I spent all of zero days in the hospital, and I had all of 5 or 6 days off sick in more than 30 years. Do you know of a non smoker who had less sick days over that time period?

Not all smokers die of smoking related illness, while some non smokers die of cancer.

One can not really expect rational consideration of evidence or logical thought from someone who willingly lights up a cigarette thirty or forty times a day. So all of the evidence and logic will be rationalized away, and everyone's time is wasted.