Reply #15: The medical bills claims made by nonsmokers make me see red.

[Wizard777]

Nonsmokers justify their crusade against smokers by saying, "We don't want to have to pay your medical bills." There it is nothing but red. In Maryland 100% of our cigarette tax goes to medicaid. Last year alone Maryland smokers paid 120 million dollars worth of Medical Bills. So I guess the reason we can't pay our own medical bills is because we are paying everyone elses medical bills. Apparently the nonsmokers don't mind smokers paying their medical bills. So not only are they deadbeat tax dodgers. Nonsmokers are lying deadbeat tax dodgers. The cigarette tax money should be put in a fund that only pays thr medical bills of smokers. Nevermind what MIGHT happen in the future. We smokers might not want to CONTINUE to pay the medical bills of nonsmokers.

As for health related claims. I'm a responsible smoker and very sympathetic to them. But I think the better way for nonsmoker to go is the way AA went. They build and run alcohol free clubs. They don't try to legislatively take over bars and run off their alcohol consuming patrons. But teh nonsmokers don't want to pull their own weight. They don't want to build, run, and patronize their own nonsmoking clubs. They want to come in and take over existing clubs built by smokers like a motorcycle gang. The Minn. loophole for smoking by actors. That has revealed how much the smoking ban has hurt those bars. One bar did 500.00 per night before the loophole. Now they are pulling 2,000.00 per night with the loophole. So nonsmokers come off as being arrogant and self centered. All they care about is their own comfort. They don't care if they take food out of the mouthes of the children of those bar owners. That's not exactly good for their health either. But nonsmokers are just a small part of the greater evil called Health Nazi's. The good thing about Health Nazi's is that their pursuit of good health and the immortality they think it provides usually kills them pretty damned quick. I'm 76. If I had a dime for everyone I knew that droped dead durring the jogging craze. Yep even getting healthy can kill you. My doctor says that there is a word for people that take health advice from the Government....... Dead.