PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke (AP)

[Rss Feeder]

AP - One of President Barack Obama's campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.

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[Madtown HD Junkie]

i moved this over here for the sure hypocrisy of the tax. Everyone knows poor smoke more and this is a tax on them.

[bruce]

i moved this over here for the sure hypocrisy of the tax. Everyone knows poor smoke more and this is a tax on them.

I'm sorry, but good, maybe instead of spending cash for cigs, they can spend the money on food instead of being on food stamps, towards their children's health care instead of being on the government's tit for it, maybe use the money to take a college class to better their lives, etc, etc.

[Bob Haller]

besides the tax money is dedicated for health care for poor children.

I just hope to see tobacco taxed to the point it salers collapse.......

10 bucks a pack should do it.....

[Madtown HD Junkie]

I have no problem with getting rid of cigarettes. The point is it is a tax on the poorest. Most will also continue to smoke.

[msmith198025]

I'm sorry, but good, maybe instead of spending cash for cigs, they can spend the money on food instead of being on food stamps, towards their children's health care instead of being on the government's tit for it, maybe use the money to take a college class to better their lives, etc, etc.

I agree that people should spend money where it is important when it gets to that, but that really is not the point of this. There are ALOT of things people spend money on when they should be doing other things, hell that is one reason we are in the situation we are in.

[vurbano]

A tax on the poor and uneducated.

[msmith198025]

A tax on the poor and uneducated.

It is going to hit alot of people hard that is for sure.

[Bob Haller]

higher price will help discorage kids from taking up the habit:)

eventually that will kill the industry:)

[cybok0]

This might make me quit chewing snuff.

[msmith198025]

This might make me quit chewing snuff.

No kidding. Wonder how much that will go up a can?

Be ready for the weight gain!!!! I put on about 40 pounds when I quit the first time. Took me a few years to lose most of it.

[Bob Haller]

This might make me quit chewing snuff.

good you are at serious risk of mouth cancer, a friend had over a period of years much of his face and jawbone removed. in the end he was on liquid food and finally a feeding tube.

he died a long painful death and was in his late 40s......

left a wife and 3 kids

[Carl]

besides the tax money is dedicated for health care for poor children.

I just hope to see tobacco taxed to the point it salers collapse.......

10 bucks a pack should do it.....

Even $20 Bob:)

[fallout2600]

No doubt cigs are killers. But is it right to "nanny" state smokers and then increase their taxes to pay for other people's health care? Another abuse in our socialist welfare system.

[cybok0]

No kidding. Wonder how much that will go up a can?

Be ready for the weight gain!!!! I put on about 40 pounds when I quit the first time. Took me a few years to lose most of it.

Suppose to be the same a cigarettes.

[cybok0]

good you are at serious risk of mouth cancer, a friend had over a period of years much of his face and jawbone removed. in the end he was on liquid food and finally a feeding tube.

he died a long painful death and was in his late 40s......

left a wife and 3 kids

Funny thing Bob, my grandfather chew side chew most of his life, he lived to be 92, died of a heart attack, no cancer.

[Bob Haller]

Funny thing Bob, my grandfather chew side chew most of his life, he lived to be 92, died of a heart attack, no cancer.

hey that can be said of anything. so and so lived to be a 100 and smoked

but long term studies prove that smokers have more heart attacks, lung cancer, bladder cancer, emphsema, etc etc.....

heck the tobacco companies knew all this in the 1960s and covered it up.

[cybok0]

hey that can be said of anything. so and so lived to be a 100 and smoked

but long term studies prove that smokers have more heart attacks, lung cancer, bladder cancer, emphsema, etc etc.....

heck the tobacco companies knew all this in the 1960s and covered it up.

I know that, but you always seem to make it sound like "everyone" will get cancer once they start using.

[HDRoberts]

I hate to see a tax on the poor, but this is far more a tax on stupidity.

The taxes should be $10 a smoke, period.

[fallout2600]

What's next? Beer? Let's take beer at $10 a bottle. Would that be a tax on the poor. Just as many middle class people smoke as poor people. This is a BS attack article.

[msmith198025]

I hate to see a tax on the poor, but this is far more a tax on stupidity.

The taxes should be $10 a smoke, period.

So we should decide what people should and shouldnt do based on someone elses idea of what is stupid or not?

[cybok0]

So we should decide what people should and shouldnt do based on someone elses idea of what is stupid or not?

Lets have another prohibition era. Instead of just alcohol add tobacco and Twinkies.

[msmith198025]

Lets have another prohibition era. Instead of just alcohol add tobacco and Twinkies.

Thats right. No fatty foods, no red meat, no sugar. Those things are bad for you, and you can not decide what you should or should not do

[cybok0]

Thats right. No fatty foods, no red meat, no sugar. Those things are bad for you, and you can not decide what you should or should not do

Your not allowed to use low grade gas, you have to use premium. All fastfood places will be allowed to sell is salads.

All music will be Yanni and Neil Diamond.

Movies can only star Kevin Bacon and Mia Farrow.

No Directv or Dish, Comcast will control all TVs.

[HDRoberts]

Ah, the crazy old slippery slope argument. When you can't do something right because you afraid someone else will want to do something wrong.

[msmith198025]

Ah, the crazy old slippery slope argument. When you can't do something right because you afraid someone else will want to do something wrong.

I just don't think the reason that you gave is a reason to do anything like this.