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Thread ID: 150643	2022-05-01 03:32:00	"You break my shop......"	Zippity (58)	PC World Chat

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1485922	2022-05-02 23:57:00	So, do we roll back the price ? We are just making the poor/middle class smokers broke . And it's usually the "poor/middle class" who can't afford it - they are usually the smokers. But I don't understand why it is so difficult to give up. My experience is that you need a reason to give up and it needs to be your reason, not someone elses reason. I gave up because I did not want to be a bad example to our children so I gave up just before our eldest was born over 40 years ago when a carton of cigarettes cost $5.	Roscoe (6288)
1485923	2022-05-03 00:51:00	It's not easy to stop! Unless you really want to! I quit cold turkey from 50 per day after smoking for 33 years since I was 11. It wasn't just the odd puff of an 11yr old either. I had a morning NZ Herald and Auckland Star in the afternoon. 7/6 per week for each and fags were 1/- for 10. By 12, I was doing a pack of 10 every couple of days. Those days it was commonplace and we were almost expected to start by our parents. Hardest thing I have ever done in my life was quitting! Ken ;)	kenj (9738)
1485924	2022-05-03 03:20:00	Nicotine is one of the worst addictive drugs out there! It hinders blood circulation, especially to the gums. Most ex-smokers have lost all their teeth, or pretty damn close to it. Cigarettes should be banned by the Government, but it will never happen. The tax revenue gathered from the sale of tobacco is too great of an opportunity to miss :(	Zippity (58)
1485925	2022-05-03 19:59:00	Cigarettes should be banned by the Government( Have you not heard of the prohibition in America? It just drove alcohol underground and onto the black market. If the government banned cigarettes the same would happen here. Rather than ban them they need to regulate. Makes a lot more sense/	Roscoe (6288)
1485926	2022-05-03 21:20:00	And it's usually the "poor/middle class" who can't afford it - they are usually the smokers. But I don't understand why it is so difficult to give up. My experience is that you need a reason to give up and it needs to be your reason, not someone elses reason. . Because it's addictive. It can vary from person to person. I had a friend who smoked heaps and one day just stopped dead. I tried for decades..........tried vape and failed. Tried again later with an ecig and that worked, so now vape with an actual vape gadget. But no nicotine at all? I'd go out and buy a pack of smokes for sure..... I knew they'd do that....Maori Party who started it...they had a survey...it consisted of: If smokes were $x would you quit? Repeat for pages and pages with the price going up each time until it was $200 a pack. I quit filling it out and added a comment that it would lead to black market and crime. Oh what happened? Husband smoked from age 11....he tried numerous times too....the last 2 yrs of his life vape with an ecig worked...finally...but too late.	piroska (17583)
1485927	2022-05-04 07:07:00	Cigarettes should be banned by the Government, but it will never happen. The tax revenue gathered from the sale of tobacco is too great of an opportunity to miss :( Anyone born after I think 2004 will never legally be able to buy tobacco as it is being banned.	gary67 (56)
1485928	2022-05-05 10:16:00	Nature has its own way of persuading people to give up - ask any undertaker. If the Gov't was serious about stopping smoking, they would only have to make a minimum of 30 a day compulsory and there'd be an uprising with thousands marching, moaning, and frothing at the nostrils to ensure nobody lost their freedom to not choose, or choose not. At least smoking is non-discriminatory, male, female or bewildered; right wing, left wing or cyclist - all are free at present to choose the highly expensive, slow, erratic and extremely painful egalitarian suicide path. (BTW, a lot of my early addiction was fuelled by the YMCA at 2/- for 50, with a maximum of 100 a week. Giving up didn't save so much in those days.) Most effective way of giving up I found was smoking on a motorbike and getting a lump of glowing embers up the nose. Very memorable.	R2x1 (4628)
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