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Joe941

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5. Another conclusion might me...

Reply to EL34x4 (Original post)

Wed Jun 14, 2017, 12:51 PM

Jun 2017

smart people quit and less smart people did not. Also smokers are wasting an enormous amount of money on cigarettes - maybe that is why they are poor?

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America's new tobacco crisis: The rich stopped smoking, the poor did not. [View all] EL34x4 Jun 2017 OP

Well, if the rich still smoked, tobacco taxes would be WAY lower... angstlessk Jun 2017 #1

In California a pack of cigarettes costs about $10 kimbutgar Jun 2017 #2

Closer to $14 here in NYC leftynyc Jun 2017 #6

That is a significant chunk of monthly income. EL34x4 Jun 2017 #8

Or on health care premiums leftynyc Jun 2017 #9

Road trip to Virginia $5.25, many Maryland smokers @$7.75 buy'em, over the line, by the cartoons! FreeStateDemocrat Jun 2017 #11

I think this is a lot of it, peer pressure. EL34x4 Jun 2017 #13

Some who are not MFM008 Jun 2017 #3

I quit Shell_Seas Jun 2017 #4

congrats MFM008 Jun 2017 #10

Another conclusion might me... Joe941 Jun 2017 #5

After this, therefor because of this... the most popular logical fallacy in America. LanternWaste Jun 2017 #7

Interesting. WillowTree Jun 2017 #12

Price for me wasn't a factor. EL34x4 Jun 2017 #14

It wasn't that I couldn't afford them anymore....... WillowTree Jun 2017 #16

In rougher parts of town I've seen single cigarettes being sold. hunter Jun 2017 #15

Ask Eric Garner... Lord_at_War Jun 2017 #17

That seems apparent just by watching people on the street, but why??? Vinca Jun 2017 #18

Cigarettes are bad in countless ways. But they are also enjoyable. EL34x4 Jun 2017 #19