WARNING:

This is going to be a Major problem in the future.

When everyone either quits smoking or dies then how is the government going to replace the revenue?

What are they going to start taxing higher next?

Milk, bread, water, gas housing or any of the other items that we depend on. That's where.

I'll never defend smoking, it's a horrible habit, but one day the American public will be sorry for taxing it out of existence.

Being forewarned is being prepared and sooner or later we will all realize that the only thing we mean to big business is profit. But by then it will be too late!!!!

Even though I have quit smoking using a electronic cigarette, I still respect the personal rights of people who choose to smoke.  Believe me, I understand the frustration of being lectured by self-righteous non-smokers.  Quitting or not quitting is a personal decision that one must reach on their own.  No amount of chiding by others ever got anyone to quit, and neither will the increasing price of cigarettes.

There are just three groups of people that it still seems to be OK to beat up on in this country:  People of faith, fat people, and smokers.  Cigarettes are not illegal, yet.

The tobacco companies have to pay the states every year as part of the settlement to the lawsuits the states filed.  The problem for the states is that the amount they get is determined by the number of cigarettes that are sold in that state.  If fewer cigarettes are being sold that means the states get less money. 

This will be a problem because some states already spent the money and planned on repaying it with the money they get from the tobacco companies, this means that states, which are already having budget shortfalls, will face a new problem that they’ll have to deal with.

The tobacco companies will collect higher profits while the states struggle.

so lets say we wipe out smoking, now everyone lives until 100....but they quit working at 67, any healthcare cost saved has been wiped away 10000X...puff, puff

All us smoker ask is let us have our places, bars, casinos........you can have the rest 

I have to agree with the first two posters.  The best thing to ever come along to help quit smoking are electronic cigarettes.  Now if we can just keep the FDA out of it....

After smoking for 37 years, I purchased and electronic cigarette a year and a half ago, and have not smoked a regular cigarette since.  I'm sure most people know that it's not the nicotine that kills you, it's the burning tobacco.  Electronic cigarettes create no heat or smoke, but mimic the behavior of smoking, which was the hardest thing for me to give up as an ex-smoker.

Electronic cigarettes are not promoted as quit-smoking devices or regulated by the FDA.  The FDA has a vested interest in keeping people smoking.  They benefit from both the sale of cigarettes, and the sale of stop-smoking drugs, some of which make people suicidal.

If you want to smoke...its YOUR choice....I have smoked, quit (3 yrs. 1 time, 1yr another time) and currently smoke....

Its B.S. how "some" non-smokers get SO high n mighty, wanting to dictate to others about smoking;....my fav, was few yrs ago...

I was on a "smoke break" at work....and these 2 woman walked by (this was at an outdoor mall in the south) and one turned to the other and said "This place is communist....look how everybody smokes, it should be banned!"....and I replied "Honey,....you have the choice to smoke, if it was banned OR mandatory...that would be like communism!....then blew a nice smoke right her way...LOL!"