The main reason I gave up smoking about 40 years ago was that it was inconsistent with my plan to live to be 104 years old. So far, so good.
Also it was a habit some people didn’t appreciate. Although I have to admit that when I did give it up some people didn’t notice and others said, “You didn’t smoke that much anyway.” I guess they figured two packs a day not to be “that much.”
But one of the prominent reasons was to legally cheat the government out of taxes. When I was in the military, I could get cigarettes as cheap as 25 cents a pack. The military “got woke” and changed that policy along with cheap liquor.
I now live in North Carolina which has one of the lowest tobacco taxes in the nation. I should move to New York or California or Washington State to save more money.
Washington State has am annual tax on electronic vehicles. That’s because their owners don’t pay tax on gasoline. I wonder if they will enact a tax on non-smokers.
The main reason I gave up smoking about 40 years ago was that it was inconsistent with my plan to live to be 104 years old. So far, so good.
Also it was a habit some people didn’t appreciate. Although I have to admit that when I did give it up some people didn’t notice and others said, “You didn’t smoke that much anyway.” I guess they figured two packs a day not to be “that much.”
But one of the prominent reasons was to legally cheat the government out of taxes. When I was in the military, I could get cigarettes as cheap as 25 cents a pack. The military “got woke” and changed that policy along with cheap liquor.
I now live in North Carolina which has one of the lowest tobacco taxes in the nation. I should move to New York or California or Washington State to save more money.
Washington State has am annual tax on electronic vehicles. That’s because their owners don’t pay tax on gasoline. I wonder if they will enact a tax on non-smokers.