FSC sucks, plain and simple. Throw it in the ashtray while I type a few lines and it's out. Ticks me off. Seriously, how many cases of someone falling asleep and burning up their house have you heard of? I know of none. I'm sure it happens but it's quite rare. Just another way they can put chemicals we don't need into something. Just like our food supply, full of crap we don't need.

In 2005, I was at the end of my rope with alcohol. For a year or two I would get up and drink a beer if I had one left. Then go to work and put vodka/gin in my water. Have a beer or three at lunch and a twelve pack at night. Every day for years. I learned how to drink in Las Vegas where the bars never close and had been a drunk, a bad drunk, for years dating back to the mid '90's. All I really cared about was where my next beer was going to come from.

I decided one day I had had enough and stopped, August of '05. Never looked back. Rarely have I even had cravings for alcohol, because I changed my mindset and said I'm done with it, that's it. Because I WANTED to quit, I did.

I have never really wanted to quit smoking because for some reason I enjoy inhaling fire. Hence why I have not stopped. I know the risks but you only live once and I do what I please and smoking pleases me.

The most ridiculous thing is banning it from bars. What a joke. Go in and drink your tail off, which can be done for days on end in this town - I know, I've done it - yet you can't have a smoke with it? Insane. At least the laws here are a bit more lax than in other states where the bar can either close it's food facilities or they can close it off so the smoke can't get into the kitchen. Most bars here you can still smoke in. Not that it affects me anymore but still it's cool for those that choose to drink.

I think they would have had riots if they truly banned smoking from bars here. It's Las Vegas, you are supposed to be able to kill yourself easily in this town.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. once called the habit "suicide by cigarette", yet he didn't die from it. Most people don't. My Mom is in her '70's and my grand parent's lived into their late '80's, early '90's and smoked for decades. It CAN kill you but the odds of it happening are much less than what THEY tell you they are.

To hell with them. I'm so sick and tired of being told by TPTB what I can or can't do, I'm ready for it all to hit the fan. I want my rights as a human being back and am willing to fight for them.

As for taxation, that's also a huge lie. They just want all our money and will do whatever they can to get it from us.

I guess I am the only person here who has gotten the last laugh???

I converted over to the electronic cigarette about a month ago. Cost $110 to get started, included 10 (refillable) cartridges, 2 batteries, 1 atomizer and the charging apparatus.

A bottle of "smoke juice" costs $10 and lasts me 2 weeks

I inhale only nicotine in a water vapor, no smoke.

And, it has made a huge difference!! I smell things better, taste things better, my lungs are clearing out the crap in them & I still feed the nicotine addiction.

Plus, because there is no actual smoke, I can use my electronic cigarette in the workplace and even on an airplane.

It has paid for itself already since I easily went through a $50 carton in a week.

You all should check into them, a simple google search will bring up LOTS of places that sell them.

Originally posted by Solomons
I use rolling tobacco for the very reason that cigarettes,even before have always been far too expensive imo.Ok i may look like an old man with my golden virginia but saves alot of pennies.As for my health,there are things in everyday life people seem to forget that damage your health just as severely yet the extremist anti-smokers moan and bitch about tobacco.It's absurd.90% of the time they are mindless drones that i wouldn't give the time of day to anyway.

I have rolled Golden for about 12 years and it's the best.
I just love these rabid non smokers, what a shock when they realise they are gonna die of something, no matter what.
I'm planning to sue the Govt. here in the the UK when I'm 65 (12 years to go ), because I have made no provision whatsoever for my old age funds.
They have been telling me that "SMOKING KILLS" on every pack for the last 20 years, so they were misleading me.