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Not the case in NZ. 20 bucks a packet has the national health bill well and truly covered with buckets to spare. So that argument is invalid, flawed and over used. The Nicotine Nazis don't give a stuff about the people they don't know. They just pretend to so they can kick smokers while they're down :-)

You must mean the immediate health care cost to you and not your country. The health care costs are a burden on your country while you smoke your country into debt. That is the definition of selfish. You could be spending that money on your family, but you choose to put the health cost burden on future kids.

No I mean the total Health Budget. They aren't a burden, they propping the rest of the country up. The policy here is nothing short of bullying and the selfness is a tag best thrown at The Nicotine Nazis who seen to it that what Perry has mentioned is a fact and why? all because some people do not like the sweet aroma of a good filter tipped cigarette. Thats selfishness. The propaganda brought into the Campaign to beat the living daylights out of hooked smokers has been based on twisted distorted and dishonest statements. The Twain shall never meet.

Those costs are felt over decades though. There is no argument to deny smoking is purely selfish. Try loose tobacco if you can't quit & want to save money.

I stopped over 5 years ago. The costs bullied me into not being able to afford it anymore and that's the what I am angry about. Thieving little shits that these Nazis are. I never enjoyed any roll your owns either. A quality filter tipped cigarette with it;s truly sweet aroma sliding down inside of you is a feeling better than sex. Unlike some who have stopped, I will never castigate a hooked smoker as these gorillas and evil Politicians do

Sounds like crack. Taxing cigarettes is nicer than criminalizing it. Glad you didn't rob convenience stores for your fix.

Here's an even better idea, don't criminalise it and remove the excessive tax on the cigarettes so people aren't going out killing shopkeepers fpr cartons of smokes. This was Perry's reference to crime.