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People who are 65+ who have been smoking for 40+ years? Well, they must DEAD already, have lung cancer already, OR will be dying sooner rather than later of SOMETHING.
As another poster said, a 71 who quits might live 3 months longer!!!!!!! At what age does it reach the point when it becomes just plain silly to penalize someone for smoking? If they have reached their 70s, or 80s (impossible?), leave them ALONE.
I knew a smoker that moved off our block and he was early 90s.
Welp, for you with the attitude of " that's RIGHT tax the s*** OUT of those evil smokers" think about this.....
One of the first thing Obama did was raise a $1 tax on cigarettes. That extra tax went to funding kids care or something. When all the smokers quit who do you think is going to take up the slack for paying for that program? You are....ba ha ha!!!!!!!!
Didn't see this covered in a search of this forum, so I'll assume it is a new topic.
Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because of tobacco penalties in President Obama’s health-care law, according to experts who are just now teasing out the potential impact of a little-noted provision in the massive legislation.
The Affordable Care Act allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies up to 50 percent higher premiums starting Jan. 1, 2014.
For a 55-year-old smoker, the penalty could reach nearly $4,250 annually. A 60-year-old could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of premiums.
As a former smoker, who still longs to take a long, relaxed drag off a cigarette every time I see one, I'm torn by this. It was a very fun habit. I loved it. I can't lie. Smoking has a wonderful effect nothing else does: if one is stressed by something, it has the ability to clear one's mind, make one sharp, and ease anxiety, all at the same time. It's a great drug!
But cigarettes are incredibly DEADLY. Few products we are exposed to, eat, breathe, or drink, have the huge number of additives, most of them carcinogenic, and which destroy the body's cells, from the brain, to the heart, to the kidneys, skin, everything - EVERY PART OF THE BODY IS DAMAGED BY CIGARETTE ADDITIVES.
These days, despite my desire to take a smoke, I stay away from smokers, not because of the temptation, but because breathing in fumes from cigarettes is like smoking them.
As a former smoker, who still longs to take a long, relaxed drag off a cigarette every time I see one, I'm torn by this. It was a very fun habit. I loved it. I can't lie. Smoking has a wonderful effect nothing else does: if one is stressed by something, it has the ability to clear one's mind, make one sharp, and ease anxiety, all at the same time. It's a great drug!
But cigarettes are incredibly DEADLY. Few products we are exposed to, eat, breathe, or drink, have the huge number of additives, most of them carcinogenic, and which destroy the body's cells, from the brain, to the heart, to the kidneys, skin, everything - EVERY PART OF THE BODY IS DAMAGED BY CIGARETTE ADDITIVES.
These days, despite my desire to take a smoke, I stay away from smokers, not because of the temptation, but because breathing in fumes from cigarettes is like smoking them.
I recently tried a electronic cigarette and am thinking about switching to those. Water vapor and nicotine, that's it.
What you Obama-haters seem to conveniently forget is that this is exactly how our current healthcare system works: those who smoke pay more for insurance. It makes sense, right? After all, aren't conservatives the ones who promote personal responsibility?Since smokers cost us all more in higher healthcare costs, then they SHOULD bear the brunt of higher premiums! If anything, you Republinuts should be cheering this aspect of Obamacare.
You would think. Oh wait, did I say "think?" Silly me.
I'm willing to bet that this, like so much of the ACA, originated with the Heritage Foundation.
Ha.
I recently tried a electronic cigarette and am thinking about switching to those. Water vapor and nicotine, that's it.
My boyfriend tried it and though it took him a little while, he now really likes electronic cigarettes. He has them in his house, his job, his car. I don't know if those have additives in addition to nicotine. Maybe not. I have to look it up.
You know how we smokers love the whole routine of holding the cigarette, having it in our hand, the process of inhaling, etc? I'm such a lunatic - I LOVE that part! It's a whole routine that is quite pleasurable. Well, apparently the electronic cigarette helps with that a lot!! The only problem my bf found with it is that it has a LOT of nicotine and can hit your brain with a bang and make you giddy lol
Where does the slippery slope end? First you hate smokers because you say they cost you money on health. After you eliminate them next there will the soda drinkers. Then the fast food people, then the alcohol drinkers, then the coffee drinkers. Then the candy eaters.
We all will be left with just brocoli , water and fruit juice and fish just to get health insurance.
My boyfriend tried it and though it took him a little while, he now really likes electronic cigarettes. He has them in his house, his job, his car. I don't know if those have additives in addition to nicotine. Maybe not. I have to look it up.
You know how we smokers love the whole routine of holding the cigarette, having it in our hand, the process of inhaling, etc? I'm such a lunatic - I LOVE that part! It's a whole routine that is quite pleasurable. Well, apparently the electronic cigarette helps with that a lot!! The only problem my bf found with it is that it has a LOT of nicotine and can hit your brain with a bang and make you giddy lol
If you try it, let me know how it goes for you.
Let me tell you I am a worry wart and a deep thinker and cigs help balance me out mentally but after 30 years of smoking when you go to have sex or carry a large box and get winded out too early you start re-thinking it.
Let me tell you I am a worry wart and a deep thinker and cigs help balance me out mentally but after 30 years of smoking when you go to have sex or carry a large box and get winded out too early you start re-thinking it.
I know what you mean. I love them but worry about health. I've seen too many people get sick from them. You have no idea how much I wish cigarettes were good for me. I'd be smoking one right now!
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