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Good question!
posted by
Straightforward
on February 25, 2011 at 1:14 AM
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I think it is a good thing that it has changed. So many people have died needlessly because of lung cancer. So many young people wanting to look cool along with thier friends have taken it up and have got sick. It isn't worth looking cool for to die in such pain. I'm glad they have banned it in most places.
posted by
Cheerygirl
on February 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM
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At $4.50 a pack now, who can afford these days to feed a two-pack-a-day habit?
posted by
TAPS.
on February 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM
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FormerStudentIntern
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posted by
BC-A
on February 20, 2011 at 7:02 AM
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I think you are right, tobacco is going out of business, but instead, the
legalization of marijuana is in the works,
posted by
Tzippy
on February 20, 2011 at 12:00 AM
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It was the same for me when I was real young
WAY too many smokers...all of my grandparents had smoked.
I don't see tobacco sales declining any time soon.
posted by
Afzal_Sunny7
on February 19, 2011 at 5:15 PM
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well I do think that people have always used something to harm
the body ..or relieve the b ody their speritual life whatever. I am thank ful that I kicked the smokers habit and I feel years younger...but I always knew it was bad for me. I never took drugs or drank more than a very little but there will always be something that we humans find to abuse our bodies with ...I feel quite sure of that.
posted by
Kabu
on February 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM
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Re: CHIFFCHAFF
During my lifetime snuff has never been big during my lifetime. I have not personally known a person to have used it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 18, 2011 at 7:16 PM
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They deserve to go out of business for they sell a most addictive product! sam
posted by
sam444
on February 18, 2011 at 4:31 PM
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It is shameful how many lives have been lost and/or destroyed
because of the tobacco companies. They have and still pretty much do get by with murder, even in this country at present - yes, there are bans, but sales are brisk and there isn't to this day yet an effective and honest campaign educating the masses about the addictive element and deadly dangers of their products. I'm sure their big bucks has kept and will continue to keep profit margins steady and swelling, through buying off those who could and should do more to warn people. Good post, FSI!
posted by
Raye09
on February 18, 2011 at 2:27 PM
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I remember going to the butcher at the grocery store with my dad where I once watched the man who was cutting my fathers order. He had a cigarette in his mouth with a really long ash hanging on the end and I was making bets with myself, which I always won of course, if the ash was going to fall on dad's meat or the floor...it did both. As far as the tobacco companies, they are now making most of their money over seas, and in third world countries.
posted by
UtahJay
on February 18, 2011 at 12:11 PM
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Well FS in the dark past it was not thought that smoking was harmful but if you were going to peg out before you were sixty what did it matter. In fact some folk thought it was quite good for the chest. I suppose inhaling parents smoke was a good way for the off-spring to become needful of this practise. Of course during wars it was a comfort to soldiers if one was up to one's knees in mud. The sales to third world Countries are still pretty resilient and the Companies are still OK. Do you remember when people took snuff, I haven't seen a snuff taker recently. I grew tobacco plants once when it was illegal, believe me that stuff was
orrible.
posted by
C_C_T
on February 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM
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