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[GiglameshDespair]

Vampires: the Devil's dumpster divers.

[nenjin]

Dear Massachusetts:

$10 fucking dollars for a pack of cigarettes?!? FUCK YOU. I looked at the gas station clerk like they were insane, they cost half of that back home. I'd love to dump a fucking ashtray down the throat of whoever made this happen.

[hops]

It's probably taxes.

[nenjin]

That's pre-tax. (Sales Tax, anyways. No telling what BS health-agenda tax might be involved.)

[~Neri]

Nenjin~ Listen to your wallet~ It's telling you to quit~

[hops]

The problem about using price to make people smoke less is that even though it does reduce the demand, it only does that in the economic sense. Just because people can afford less cigarettes doesn't mean that they'll stop smoking. It just means they get poorer.

[nenjin]

Nenjin~ Listen to your wallet~ It's telling you to quit~

You mean listen to people trying to tell me what to do with my body, under the totally hypocritical justification that my habit should be singled out among fast cars, guns, booze and wellness-obliterating work-life balance?

Fuck 'em.

[Frumple]

... though yeah, about that price, it does look like mass has the second highest cig tax in the states. So there's more going on there than sales tax. No clue if it's health-agenda stuff or not, though. Could be them just picking an easy target, or trying to recoup whatever losses they're having due to medical et al pressures on the local gov't funded stuff taking care of death-wish folks getting death'd.

[~Neri]

Nenjin~ Listen to your wallet~ It's telling you to quit~

You mean listen to people trying to tell me what to do with my body, under the totally hypocritical justification that my habit should be singled out among fast cars, guns, booze and wellness-obliterating work-life balance?

Fuck 'em.

My policy is if it doesn't affect me, people can fuck their bodies up however they want. Ciggarretes tend to affects others due to second hand smoke. Long as you aren't smoking in public, I don't see it as an issue. Although you should quit, it's really bad for you. (As are car crashes, alcohol, and being shot. Those are bad for you also.)

[nenjin]

Nenjin~ Listen to your wallet~ It's telling you to quit~

You mean listen to people trying to tell me what to do with my body, under the totally hypocritical justification that my habit should be singled out among fast cars, guns, booze and wellness-obliterating work-life balance?

Fuck 'em.

My policy is if it doesn't affect me, people can fuck their bodies up however they want. Ciggarretes tend to affects others due to second hand smoke. Long as you aren't smoking in public, I don't see it as an issue. Although you should quit, it's really bad for you. (As are car crashes, alcohol, and being shot. Those are bad for you also.)

I'll smoke in public if I damn well please. What I won't do is smoke next to other people, or violate the courtesy rules we now have. (Like being x feet from a door.) I think outlawing smoking in most public restaurants was a great move, personally.

But every time I'm standing 50 feet from a doorway and some sanctimonious fuck walking by gives a little *cough* *cough*, it literally makes me want to take out my keys and gouge a fist-sized hole in their neck with them.

[Blargityblarg]

Nenjin~ Listen to your wallet~ It's telling you to quit~

You mean listen to people trying to tell me what to do with my body, under the totally hypocritical justification that my habit should be singled out among fast cars, guns, booze and wellness-obliterating work-life balance?

Fuck 'em.

Slowly killing oneself out of spite, whilst fairly metal, is not a particularly efficient form of revenge.

Then again, I live in Australia; we're both a nanny state and one of the most expensive places on the planet to live.

[nenjin]

Slowly killing oneself out of spite, whilst fairly metal, is not a particularly efficient form of revenge.

Be nice if the nannies here had an iota of that sense of humor.

[Frumple]

... to be an extent of fair to the sanctimonious fucks, I've actually pretty commonly had smokers fifty goddamn feet away fuck up my breathing. Ruddy crap gets around, it does, and when you've got lungs particularly susceptible to the stuff (i.e., I've had cigarette smoke exposure literally knock me unconscious before), it can be noticeable. Usually try to avoid the cough, because I don't like ruddy coughing, but sometimes there ain't no stopping it.

They may just be sanctimonious fucks, though.

[~Neri]

I suggest just not doing it in public, it can and will cause health issues, even from fifty feet away.

[Blargityblarg]

Also, even to those who aren't particularly sensitive, it smells like arse. I regularly hold my breath when walking past smokers, not because I'm trying to be passive aggressive, but because I don't want to smell it or breathe it.