Pot smokers have said forever "Make it legal, tax it, and we'll be glad to pay!" Well,

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112. I've tried patches, lozenges, gum and...........

WHEN I could afford it, that weird drug doctors prescribe..........something like Wellbutrin (which sucks, a doc put me on it in 1984 and I was sick as a dog, and quit after a couple days)........and costs $500 a month OVER insurance, because insurance companies don't pay for stop-smoking apparatus.

Funny, they'll pay millions to keep you alive with lung cancer, heart disease, etc. But try to stop with a drug? Not. Covered. Seriously, I called and asked. Begged, actually.

I don't smoke inside a house, car, restaurant, etc. I smoke outside, only. Which can be a little inconvenient at 40 below. I want to quit. I can't. I've tried.

We ride motorcycles. You can't smoke on a bike (well, you CAN, but it's not easy) and we usually do 300 to 400 miles a day. I won't smoke around anyone who can't stand it. I smoke outdoors, and have never, ever left a butt in a campground, on the road, or anywhere else. They go in the trash, and here? That means throwing them in with used motor oil, air conditioning fixers, etc. I don't mind that.

Ask if Obamacare pays for whatever drugs you need to quit. Nope. Tried that, too, and it would have cost about $300 a month more than what I pay now......... i.e., about the same.

Yes, tobacco as it is, should not be outlawed. It's a plant. Tobacco as it is manufactured and sold by corporations? Outlaw the shit!