02-10-2006, 05:32 PM
I quit (half a pack a day) last August. In Pima county smoking is prohibited in restarants and most other public places. I'm perfectly fine with that level of prohibition. Of course there are initiatives to ban smoking in bars. I oppose this. There are also initiatives to fund new programs with increased taxes on tobacco. Planning to rely on revenue from tobacco taxes while at the same time doing everything possible to eliminate that source of revenue doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Never mind that it's an onerous tax on only a portion of the population. Those who are truly addicted to smoking aren't going to stop because it's expensive.