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Choice seems to be the most important part of this. ItТs the smokerТs choice that they smoke. ItТs their choice that they are hurting themselves. But isnТt that what America was built on? The freedom to choose? I think itТs insane that we are so ready to strip the rights of a group of people just because they do something we donТt agree with. Voltaire once said, УI may not like the smell of your tax free cigarettes, but IТll defend to the death your right to smoke it!Ф IТm paraphrasing here. But the point still stands, damnit! We are forsaking our forefathers with this behavior! America is the land of freedom and choice. For hundreds of years we have based ourselves on the idea that no man should be discriminated against because of his life choices if its in the bounds of legality. But the second someone lights up a Camel Filter there is an uproarious outcry! УI donТt like what he is doing, he shouldnТt be allowed to do it!Ф There are many who would outright outlaw smoking in the country. Let me tell you who else wants to ban smoking: Communists. And donТt you think IТm kidding for a second! There is talk right now in China of a nation-wide ban on smoking. Do you see what weТve come to? I know I sure as hell donТt want to live in the United Soviet States of America! The moment we ban smoking is the moment when the Reds smile their cruel, devious smiles, for they know weТre doing ourselves in! This great intolerance towards smokers is the most self destructive thing America has done since smooth jazz became popular. We all remember that dark time when Kenny G rose to prominence; do not let us fall into another spiral like that.

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Local convenience stores see trouble in the proposal to nearly double the stateТs tax on marlboro online.

УItТs going to really kill business,Ф said Aman Singh, owner of Citgo Mart on Main Street. УTaxes are already killing people right now. They canТt afford no extra.Ф

But extra is exactly what theyТll get if the state budget as it currently exists passes both houses of the state Legislature.

The Legislature recently agreed to boosting the tax to $1.25 per pack, slightly less than the original increase hammered out in backroom negotiations between Gov. David Paterson, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno.

But local store owners scoffed at projections that the increased tax would be a huge boost for the budget Ч saying it would merely drive smokers towards cheaper cigarettes on Native American reservations or over the Internet.

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One evening I just got down on my knees and without a big prayerful production, told God how I felt about it all and that I just wanted to quit. I was putting the cigarettes down and asked for whatever it would take to keep me from picking them up again.

This was a form of will power at this point, I suppose, but I submitted to God’s mercy and was being quite up front with God about it.

It became more difficult as the evening went on, to not want to go back to the public trashcan I had thrown my remaining packs of discount cigarettes into and light one up again. I had even thrown my ashtray and lighter away as well. I would have had to buy cigarettes and a lighter again just to have another smoke. But I held out through the night.

The next morning I was driving over to a friend’s house. It felt like someone was choking me while I was driving. Although I could breathe, my throat felt so constricted. I wanted a cigarette then and there almost more than I had ever wanted one. Just to make this feeling go away. I assumed it was withdrawal.

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A tossed Pall Mall Cigarettes landed two men in the Lapeer County jail for Christmas.

Patricia Moore and her family were driving through Almont from a holiday dinner in St. Clair Shores on Sunday when a police officer pulled them over to ask who threw a cigarette out the window.

After no one owned up, Moore tells The Flint Journal the officer ordered her daughter to get out of the car after discovering she didn't have proof of insurance. Alvin Moore told her to stay put.

Patricia Moore says overzealous police are punishing her husband and son-in-law James Dunsmore -- who flicked the cigarettes -- for exercising constitutional rights. Police say they were uncooperative.

Police reports submitted to the Lapeer County Prosecutor's office claim the men were uncooperative, belligerent and that one of the men locked the door and nearly closed a car window on a police officer's fingers.

They're jailed on charges of resisting and obstructing police.