since I was hooked on a drug as a child(nicotine) and can never quit, Is it fair to tax my drug.?
928423
if you were a child you broke the law you have now forfieted your right to fairness in this area.  if you were of consenting age then you have made the choice and you pay the consiquences.  either way the govt has ever right to charge you whatever they want for your decisions.  nobody makes you use nicotine... if it was something that you were required to do then yes.
765551
Yes! (if you did not pay taxes in another state on those cigarettes)  In fact, California has sent bills to 12,000 taxpayers this year who purchased cigarettes over the internet and paid no sales tax.  This is not just cigarettes though- technically anything you buy over the internet or through the mail for which you are not taxed is taxable by California.  It's just too hard to track individual spending so only companies are subject to those rules- it's called a "use tax".
232278
Yes.  In a supposed free country we have very little freedom.  It's time for the government to stop acting like strict parents and let adults make adult decisions.  As long as no one else is hurt, why not?  People have ready access to it anyway.  Why not tax it so our country can benefit from it.
945631
None really, you just cannot buy them if you're underage. You can have someone else buy them for you and smoke them all you want. Although they are trying to change this, also trying to make Canada "cigarette free"... <insert laughter here>.
638160
WHY NOT STOP USING DRUGS AND BECOME A PRODUCTIVE MEMBER OF SOCIETY.\n\nDEADBEAT\n\nGREAT, NOW MY TAX DOLLARS ARE GOING TO SUPPORT YOUR DRUGGIE A$$ IN JAIL AND FEED YOUR ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN AND PAY FOR YOUR MEDS TO TREAT YOUR STD'S YOU GOT FROM SCREWING THE HOE'S YOU TRADE DRUGS WITH.\n\nWAY TO GO YOU LOOSER!!!
1036832
Believe it or not I have never tried any type of drugs. I'm 30 now. It has been offered to me and I have even held it in my hands before but chickened out. My mom talked about it with me at a very young age and same with cigarettes. Never smoke those either. Just talk to your kids all the time about it!
906856
Nicotine addicts rights end at the tip of my nose. If they don't like it, to bad. No one should be forced to share a smokers rude and deadly habit, especially children and the elderly, who don't normally stand up for themselves.
641580
My theory is: Only because politicians have not yet found a way to regulate it and tax it to their greatest profit. If ever they're able to market and tax it like cigarettes, they'll leagalise and sell it.
206751
Frankly, I don't think either of your choices adequately describes smokers.\nEveryone should be held responsible for their choices in life; so, the fact that tobacco companies make a dangerous product does not excuse smokers from suffering the effects of using it.  No tobacco company is forcing anyone to smoke.  Even though I have never smoked, and think it is the filthiest habit around, I also think that freedom is infinitely preferable to living in a nanny state.\nNicotine is an extremely addictive drug.  Some say it is harder to kick than heroin.  Those who use it need patience and understanding to kick the habit, not constant derision and insults.  Irony and sarcasm are OK, though...;)\nThe way to stop tobacco use is through education and patience, not laws and ill will.
875543
I guess you want to be known as "convicted felon"...because that is exactly what you will be if you don't quit snorting drugs.  Of course, it might not ever get to that point because you will die eventually.  IT IS ILLEGAL to take a drug that is not prescribe for YOU and to take it in a way that it was never intended for.
363948
Same like other governments...\nIncrease the taxes for cigarettes and tobacco products...\nevery year...\n\nif that's not enough...ban shops/stores from selling packs less than 10 cigarettes..
196276
Cigs because they can tax them.\nSuicide? Cannot tax it.\n\nAlcohol - can tax.\nMJ - Can be grown anywhere and tax easily avoided.\n\nI think both alcohol and M should be outlawed precisely because we have so many people who act stoned without any help from foreign substances.  No need to have any chemical assistance to augment our current level of stupidity.
880018
Well, stores can charge what they like--if people pay it, then it isn't exorbitant or anything.  Prices are usually based on what the market will bear.\n\nBut often, communities have "sin taxes" levied on items like alcohol and tobacco products.  Usually, a community will need some money for something or other, and rather than raise sales tax in general, they might raise taxes on a certain item like alcohol and tobacco because they know people are addicted to them and they'll pay quite a bit for them.  \n\nIn my area, several counties and towns are "dry", meaning they don't sell alcohol at all, or they only sell beer (no liquor) or they only sell beer in stores (but not by-the-glass at bars or restaurants.)  Three or four of them are voting on whether or not to stay dry or change their alcohol-selling rules.  Your town might have enacted some kind of sin tax--it's often legislature that rules the price of vice items.
401831
Well, that depends on what substances you are talking about.  Personally, I think that an adult should be allowed to engage in activities that are not harmful to anyone else and do not infringe on the rights of others.  Having said that, I do not necessarily believe that full legalization is the way to go.  In the case of marijuana, for instance, it is theorized that the price might actually increase if the government started regulating and taxing the sale of marijuana.  I think a more logical solution, at least in the case of marijuana, would be decriminalization.  The government would not regulate the industry; instead, they could monitor the sale of the plant to minors, insuring that everyone who chooses to buy marijuana is an adult(just like cigarettes).
1110725
yea i smoke...i'm a 19yr old female\ni go through about  1-2 pks per wk..\nat the present no i dnt wish to quit
767662
Fair? This government taxes you for everything: being born, living and dying. It will always find a way of squeezing more blood out of a stone, duty free or not.
745534
personally no\nI know people who like to smoke who need something in their hands, like twirling hair or drumming with your hands, just something to do.\nThey like the repetitive motion. \nOnce you are addicted it is just that addiction. Nicotine is still a drug.