Groups push for collecting cigarette taxes
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 New York has lost more than $300 million since June 3 because it doesn’t collect the excise tax on Indian cigarette sales, according to the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association. The groups set up a “Tobacco Tax Ticker” six months ago.
  The organizations are urging Gov. David Paterson to collect taxes on cigarettes sold at Indian reservations. Native-American tribes oppose the measure. The Seneca Indian nation has run a series of commercials that say the governor would hurt the upstate economy if he ordered the taxes be collected.
  The health groups claim that doing so would prompt an estimated 150,000 New Yorkers to quit smoking and help provide funds for health programs that serve people without insurance.
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So is the economic profit really overwhelmed the risk danger caused by cigarrette. Those people should ask themselves this consideration. Is the economical profit really worth your health and your beloved people around you?
I’ll smoke to that.
Put the taxes on Big Macs and other fattening foods. And tax the obese.
Look around: there is an “overweight America” surrounding you (and me).
Give a discount for cigarette smoking.
Fight the smoke Nazis.
Bloomberg is fat, because he stopped smoking. He’ll sooner die of heart disease, owing to his being overweight.
I’d prefer any day to be in the company of a fat, scotch drinking smoker with an incisive intellect than a skinny stick insect birdbrain who talks loudly about creating a world as shallow and arrogant and boring as his own.
it depends what kind of scotch!
With an incisive intellect, and a 007 taste, it would be only King’s Ransom; would it not?
yes it would..over rocks…..
How about neat?
After Surgeon General Luther Terry made his public pronouncement, in 1965, that (surprise!) cigarettes were harmful to one’s health, and that they caused cancer, President Lyndon Johnson immediately stopped smoking, according to his chief aide, Joseph Califano, of Brooklyn.
A two-pack-a-day non-filtered guy, LBJ complained over the next four years to Califano—a three-pack-a-day smoker who would become the anti-smoking czar under Jimmy Carter as Secretary of HEW—that he couldn’t wait to leave the Oval Office, return to Austin, and start smoking again.
Owing to a familial bad heart, Lyndon checked out in January 1973—after, it should be said, he voted for Richard Nixon in 1972.
Franklin Roosevelt was restricted by his doctor to six cigarettes a day, in 1944.
Now: both presidents died at age 64, which might embolden the anti-smoking movement’s advocates. Au contraire! Both men led a stressful presidency, and the DNA of both LBJ and FDR suggests they lived to the maximum age, given all factors of their lives.
Al Gore and president-elect Obama still sneak a cig.
The health facists would have you believe that smoking, on its own, will kill you. Not necessarily so. A healthy diet combats any perceived ills of nicotine consumption.
Yours, in the continuing challenge of popular assumptions—