I doubt it. They don’t benefit from the diesel exhaust no matter how much it is taxed. Diesel fumes have the most carcinogenic agent known to man and it is spewed out into our air at a constant and consistent rate every hour of the day all across the globe. (no one is doing a thing about it)
The foods we have now are processed foods and we feed the kids all the carcinogens used to make the foods palatable, storeable, and whats used to preserve the foods. We don’t even pay taxes on those to assist in our childrens cancers. Trust me after ten years of eating foods from the shelves of the grocery market you are "poisened". Call it silly if you want but a vast majority of what is in the processed foods will not harm you with one or two meals, even one or two weeks of those meals but … after a decade? Hell the toxins are kept in the body and the body cannot flush them out and the toxins just keep on building in the wee ones well into adulthood and then sometimes in their early thirties to late fifties the toxins attack the body and cancers occur. Our taxes won’t help with that either.
If you want to provide healthcare for the kids so bad then shop your foodstuff that comes only from farms within a hundred miles of your home, town or city. In that they will survive to grow older without fears of cancers.
Never mind the frigging cigarettes my friend. Look to your own backyard for the cause of a vast majority of our cancers.
I know that back on April 1st, the Cigarette and Tobacco taxes were substantially increased.
Since then I’ve heard around that there is pending legislation that there will be another tax increase during the Fall/Winter months of 2009, but can’t find any evidence of that.
Anybody know?
There no more pending Federal tobacco tax increases at present. Those take an act of Congress and Congress is busy with other issues right now.
State taxes could increase at any time and that is were most high tobacco taxes exist. (The tax on a pack of cigarettes in NYC is nearly $6.00 when all taxes are added in.)
My brand of cigarettes just went up $7.00 a carton and will go up another $6.20 April 1st for the new tax. I am done with cigarettes! Have a doctor’s appointment to get Chantix.
Besides why should I as a smoker pay for someone else’s child health care? I take care of my own already.
If more people quit smoking how will they pay for the enormous cost?
I am going to quit for sure. I think it is absolutely ridiculous. I feel like the government is dictating what people should do because of the very high increase. I am not even quitting because of the price, I am quitting out of pure principle that I do not want the government to touch a penny of mine because of this tax.
I think a lot of smoker’s will finally wise up and plan to quit. There will probably be some people who will not quit but I hope at lease 30 percent decide to quit. I think the government made a big mistake on raising cigarettes this much. Some would say that it will save money in the long run because of health problems but, you could debate that forever. For example, you could say that the government should tax fast food because it could save money in the long run.
The government is going to hurt more business because of this, something which is probably not a good idea now. The government is just going to find something else to tax after they find out this does not work and probably think why they did this to smokers in the first place. So come on anti-smokers, TELL ME HOW WRONG I AM AND GIVE ME A THUMBS DOWN!!!!