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| We Should Raise The Price Of Cigarettes, To Discourage People Form Buying Them |
| I am writing a report on this topic, out of my class i found out that 17/18 people agree with this statement, but thees are all 13 year old girls. I want to know what the public says. Thanks! |
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Anything that will make them quit |
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Yeah mate, i just steal them anyways |
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We SHOULD, but it will not discourage them! I believe that if we were to raise the price of
cigarettes, we should use the money to aid people who are trying to recover from addiction,. We
don't lose anything by trying! |
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Every time the price of cigarettes rises, more cash-strapped teens do not begin smoking. Canada has
consciously raised the price of cigarettes specifically to curtail or lower teen smoking, and it has
worked.
Unfortunately in the U.S., with guilty, overworked parents showering money (instead of quality time)
on their kids, money for cigarettes is rarely a problem. But, still, raising the price of a pack
does discourage a certain segment of teens from taking up the smoking habit.
Alas, as others have pointed out here, the price of cigarettes can rise and rise, and addicted
smokers will not quit. My state, Nevada, recently enacted a “sin tax” on prostitution, liquor,
and tobacco, and it has not put a dent in our smoking rate -- which is the highest in the nation.
But I applaud lawmakers who institute such taxes in an effort to control the increasing rate of teen
smoking. |
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I think something like 23% of smokers in Britain are interested in quitting since the recent price
increase (although you might argue that the public smoking ban has had more of an impact) so i think
that it is having some effect. |
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Cigarette smoking is very much injurious to health and this is a common tag which is imprinted on
any cigarette brand. But still people who smoke are not having a control over their smoking and in
turn they are causing more danger to themselves as smoking can cause many serious problems involving
their lungs and heart. One big reason why they are not being able to control is the casual and
readily availability of cigarettes in the stores. In such a situation there is only one way to
prevent the situation and that is by increasing the price of cigarettes so that people stop buying
them as it will be beyond their availability. At least for a certain class of people it will not be
affordable and they might stop having them. By this we can prevent a little bit. |
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The more you raise the price, the more of a luxury item cigarettes will become, and then it will
become a status symbol to be seen smoking, and everyone will want to be seen smoking, so some
entrepreneur will come up with cheaper cigarettes that the masses can afford, and smoking will take
off as a fashion, and then.... |
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No. I hate smoking cigarettes. They annoy me. I used to work in a club where smoke got so thick it
was in my hair and layered to my skin. Utterly disgusting. But I don't like doing stuff such as
increased taxes to control people's consumption of goods. I am fairly philosophical and do not like
controlling people's free will. Even with tricks like these. |
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Are you crazy? What do you care what other people do with their bodies? |
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I don't think it would work |
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It hasn't worked thus far and their is a fundamental reason for that.
It is fashionable, and has been for about seventy years or more. Once bitten by the bug it is though
to get it out of the system. |
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Still will not change anything sadly |
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No, although I deeply loath cigarettes. |
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Where have you been? Prices on cigarettes have continued to rise at an incredible rate. It hasn't
changed a thing. As a former smoker I can say that price has nothing to do with it. You have to
decide for yourself. I will add that decreased acceptance by society "might" keep a non-smoker from
starting. |
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We cant raise the prices, only the company can do that. We could put a tax on it but what you're
suggesting is in the hands of the company selling the cigarettes |
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I don't think taxing cigarettes is necessarily the way, but we absolutely should require smokers to
be fully responsible for the effects of their habit. That means no tax-payer paid medical expenses
when they come down with lung cancer, they need to either have their own, probably expensive,
medical insurance or pay it out of their own pocket. The taxpayer shouldn't pay for other people's
stupidity. |
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Cigarette prices have been raised already, and it hasn;t changed anything. So I don't see why
raising them again would change it. |
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'WE', that is unless you are a cigarette company, can't raise prices. The government shouldn't tax
them and whoever wants to buy them should be able to buy them. People should be able to do what
they want with their own money. |
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14 Feb 2008 18:49
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