Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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A bunch of crazies are in city and state government everywhere. These little insidious laws are "tests" that they hope will eventually become nationwide. 20% of people that smoke get lung cancer. 20% of lung cancer cases occur in people that have never smoked.
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But it is our business if people want to smoke themselves to death. It impacts our health care system. According to the American Cancer Society, smoking kills more people than alcohol, car crashes, suicide, AIDS, murder, and drugs combined. Smoking causes 87% of lung cancer deaths. Lung cancer is the leading type of cancer in men and women. During 2010-2014, an estimated 11.7% (95% CI = 11.6%, 11.8%) of U.S. annual healthcare spending could be attributed to adult cigarette smoking, translating to annual healthcare spending of more than $225 billion dollars based on total personal healthcare expenditures reported in 2014. |
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"Tobacco related deaths in this country don't cost our society a damn penny. The cost of a pack of cigarettes is 90% tax money that Uncle Sam gets from the smokers. The government gets hundreds of millions of $$$$ from the smokes."
True words. What a lot of folks don't realize is that tobacco can be grown, and is legal to do so, (at least it was three years ago when I checked) in all 50 states. Don't try selling it though...Uncle Sam may have something to say about that! |
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I was visiting my sister in a rural part of Connecticut, & I was surprised to drive past fields of tobacco. Connecticut with its rocky soil & a bit of a cold snap for 6 months or so a year, is not well known as an agricultural state. I guess I had always thought Virginia & North Carolina had the tobacco industry all sewed up.
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You got me curious.
The highest tax is $5.35 a pack in New York. The lowest is Georgia at $0.35. the average state cigarette tax is $1.93 a pack. I didn't know what the cost of a pack is but if it's $4 a pack about 50% tax. I should have kept reading, the info above is state tax. Federal tax is $1.01 a pack. The highest in the country is Chicago with all tax included is $7.16. wow
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There are still dry towns in several states, where alcohol is not allowed to be sold. No liquor stores, no beer, no bars, no wine at restaurants. I don't see any problem with a town that wants to gradually eliminate smoking. No one has a constitutional right to smoke. "Freedom to inhale poisonous fumes and exhale them into public air" is not a right, or even a privilege. It's more of an oversight. Kudos to the town in MA for starting the process of correcting that oversight. There was already a minimum age (21) to buy tobacco in MA, they've just raised the age, and capped it at a specific birth year. |
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You’re correct, the tobacco farms running along the Connecticut river Valley between Deerfield, MA and Windsor, CT produce what is considered the finest tobacco leaves in the world for rolling premium cigars. Many premium Cuban cigars are rolled in leaves from that river valley corridor. A couple of my friends and I spent a summer during high school working on one of those farms, very hard and nasty work, but it put drinking $$$ in our pockets.
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The politicians end up in jail about as often as the mobsters in Chicago, nice place
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