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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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 Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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People don't like smoking because they can see it and smell it. They say its a health issue but that's just BS.
If the carbon monoxide from cigarettes looked and smelled like car exhaust nobody would have a problem with it. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:01 pm Post subject: Re: cost of smoking |
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| Landros wrote: |
the whole problem is that people think that raising tax on cigarettes will stop people from smoking and if people stop smoking there won't be lung cancer or heart attacks and we won't have to pay for health care. but actually if people live longer they will just get sick later and be in the hospital when they are older. People make all these laws to just stop others from doing stuff that bothers them but everything bothers someone.
So you can't smoke because I don't like the smell and you can't drink because it bothers me and your music is too loud and your food stinks and eventually you won't be allowed to do anything and either will I. |
Hogwash. Pure and unadulterated. |
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Stan Rogers
Joined: 20 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 2:19 am Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| In fact, in the mid '90s, when the government raised the prices on beer & imported liquor, they said soju would be unaffected out of concern for the working man. They could bring back the Sol Namu ( Pine Tree )cigarrettes that they used to provide for the military. I used to buy those for W 400. |
It appears your call was spot on.
http://news.mk.co.kr/newsRead.php?rss=Y&sc=30800006&year=2015&no=163312&sID=308 |
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drydell
Joined: 01 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2015 4:53 am Post subject: |
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Park Geun Hye was elected on a ticket of increasing welfare but not increasing taxes... Cynics have said that the tax hike on ciggies - ostensibly for health reasons was really a measure to boost govt income by other means and nothing to do with health (personally I'm not sure - when you consider all the bans taking place concurrently).. But the introduction of cheapie ciggies would bear this out as she is facing a popularity backlash because of it.
From a UK perspective where a pack of 20 are what?.. 18000won it seems like arguing over a rise from ridiculously cheap.. To very very cheap.. It's all a bit of a non debate.. |
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