sorry fattboy,,,i guess sarcasm has to be explained,,,was sure most on here would know what a facious remark was

ok fredm93 you must be an OBAMA person one that believes anything from the government That is for anything they want it to be for!!!!!!!!! WAKE UP AND LISTEN AND READ FOR YOURSELF!!!!!!!! what has government ever done for us good “NOTHING”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

since this tax is going just for medical care for smokers alone,,,i would like to invite everyone in the country who has a smoking related illness to move to florida for free treatments,,,if i’m gonna pay it then my family in ohio should be able to benefit from it,,,come on down folks,,,finally free health care for smokers only,,,way to go florida!!!!!!!

have to pay taxes to be with women,but some guys still will get out of paying taxes. ha

Smoker’s all I can say is start e mailing, and when it come time to vote. Vote all of these people that is wanting to lay more tax’s on us because they do not smoke but they have other habits that is just as bad. Let’s add more tax’s on beer and if we leave it up to the government. Us man will have a tax because we like women

Sorry, Gator, but I’ll have to question this one.  A couple of years back there was a good fire started at Camp Flowers Road and 231.  It was determined after it had burned several acres to have been started by a tossed cigarette. This came from the Fire Marshall’s office at the time.  Even though it has rained up there, the grass is thick and powder dry with all the heat.  All it takes is a spark to set this mess off.  If a smoldering cigarette can set a couch on fire, what’s the difference in tall, dry grass?  My biggest gripe with smokers is that I am violently allergic to smoke and have COPD from many years as a smoker in my earlier years.  I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve left a store fighting for breath because I walked through a cloud of smoke by the door.  Is it too much to ask for people to be more considerate in where they toss their cigarette butts or where they blow the smoke when other people are around?

sorry oldman, you are wrong again, i am a firefighter, for someone to toss a cig out of their window and that cig to start a fire there are too many conditions that need to be just perfect for the cig to start a fire? humidity would have to be very low temp very high, then it would still be hard to happen. the more logical reason, someone pulled over on the dry grass and the exhaust started it, or even the exhaust from a diesel blew a peice of carbon out and started it.

OLDMAN IF YOU LOVE THE TAXES THEN THEY NEED TO FIND SOMEWAY FOR NONSMOKERS TO PAY A EXTRA 2.00 ADAY IN TAXES .DAME COMPLAINERS———maybe your hair tonic or cologne gives someone a headache from that stink tax it too.leave FREEDOM alone. talking about people thinging of themself you have no room to talk

If this will stop one more idiotic moron from tossing a lit butt out on the side of the highway and setting the grass on fire as happened yesterday on 231, then tax their eyes out!  People don’t think of anyone but themselves when they do dumb things like this.  It’s bad enough they stink like they do but tossing their butts out the window just shows their lack of intelligence or concern for others.  The next time you drive up Hwy 77 just look at the curbs on the median side when you stop at a light.  Or look at the jerk that dumps his or her ashtray in a store’s parking lot.  Or the ones that always seem to stand right next to the door so that you get a face full of their poison.  Tax them?  You bettter believe I love the idea!

Quit supporting Florida, buy in Alabama, $1.40 a pack cheaper if you look, fas is ep to 20 cents a gallon cheaper, almost pays for itself, I can can almost bet dollrs for donuts, that new money Florida is expecting to throw into medicare will never make it there, will be allocated elsewhere, want examples, see info on social security and see what that shows you about re-allocated funds. Lets see, , lets raides taxes on soda pop a dollar a bottle, its bad for you, causes stomach problems, can lead to ulcers, cancer if let to run its course. lets start a 1$ tax on big macs, leads to obesity, lets add $1 tax on a cup of coffee, caffiene is bad for you.how about a !$ for a donut, I can think of meany more items Florida has forgotten, all lead to health problems, heres an idea, why not stop all the welfare, food stamps, free medical care for all those who sit on there duff, and make them get a job, wouldnt need all these new taxes then, whatever happen to the time limit on these programs?

ok xinerevelle i am not college educated sorry for such bad grammar.Sorry never had no governmental help no checks,food stamps,unemployment.i’ve always healt and car insurance.Father taught me i was man of the take care of problem myself.Don’t depend on NOBODY ELSE   thanks

No problem, Fatboy. Just don’t drive on roads, expect police to show up at your house when there’s a break-in, or water to come out of your tap. Don’t collect unemployment if you lose your job, and don’t show up at Bay Med’s ER expecting treatment unless you plan to pay cash (don’t count on insurance, since it’s regulated by government, too). I can tell from your post that you evidently did not take full advantage of the government-run school system since your post is riddled with grammatical and typing errors.

Yep, let’s all live in a bubble. Not.

I think we should go back to the old AMERICA,back when the government DIDN’T have there nose in everybody’s bussiness.But this is the NEW AMERICA where government tells us what is best.I am tired of EVERY time the government srews up they throw on our back with a new TAX.Government DON’T work,this is AMERICAN if i want to SMOKE,DRINK,FISH or anyother LEGAL thing i shouldn’t be SINGLED out to have to pay MORE. THIS IS MY RIGHTS FOR BEING AN AMERICAN         HOPE SOME OF OUR fine POLITICAN READ THIS   THANKS

Gotta love this story! Less people smoking is always a good thing. Less cost to taxpayers to take care of smokers with many health concerns, including COPD and lung cancer. Plus, this means less kids will take up smoking. Yay! It makes me sick to my stomach every time I see a 12 or 13 year old kid smoking, especially after watching my mom have part of her lung removed due to lung cancer. She started smoking at 13, and was 57 at the time of her surgery. Thankfully, she’s still doing ok (even with COPD), but she continues to smoke—nicotine is a POWERFUL drug.

folks having to pay that much for cigarettes should be able to smoke any where they want, and i’m a nonsmoker. tear down one wall, now build another one, smokers on one side and none on the other ,dame complainers