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Originally Posted by Lady Blue
I'm not sure I understand your post here. I don't know if you misunderstood me, or if I'm misunderstanding you.
I was responding to HarryT's post below about punishing smokers, who was responding to pilotbob's post about tripling the cost of cigarettes to discourage their use.
I too, think "punishment" is a loaded term for doing something that is legal. My disagreement with that term is what my post was trying to convey.
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If it is in fact punishment, or encouragement to modify a destructive behavior, but it's obviously neither of those; its pure and simple greed.
It is a well known fact that an addict will pay whatever price is necessary to obtain his/her drug of choice. And if the drug of choice happens to be legal, like tobacco or alcohol; Why what a cash cow that turns out to be! Also quite convenient to lie about!