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But is there not something slightly elegant about pulling out a cigarette case, lighting it with a fine vintage lighter and smoking with a little panache as opposed to bob the builder with his roll-up hanging from his lip or pinched between his nicotine stained fingers.
Have you seen the tax increase on roll-your-own tobacco thought? The tax on a pack of cigarettes will go up $1. The current tax on a pound of loose tobacco for roll your own is about $1.10, and it will go up to almost $25. You are probably paying less than $25/lb currently, so the new tax could triple or quadruple your cost.
If someone pulls out a cigarette case, my reaction would be the same for a man wearing a cape.
In any event, the sociological fact is that smoking has become a lower class sport (particularly in the U.S. but increasingly elsewhere, too). The link with (high) "class" is more and more tenuous.
Wait, what? To be honest, I got that bit of info word-of-mouth, and didn't research it. So is this a state-enacted tax?
The largest tobacco tax hike in history went into effect on Wednesday.
The tax on cigarettes climbed from 39 cents to $1.01 per pack.
For cigars, tax went up 700-percent, from 5 cents to 40 cents each.
Roll your own tobacco was taxed $1.09 per pound, but has jumped to $24.78 per pound -- a 2,173-percent increase.
If someone pulls out a cigarette case, my reaction would be the same for a man wearing a cape: affected, self-conscious and insecure rather than elegant. Why would his fingers be any less stained than as his less "classy" fellow smoker? Does he also wear white gloves?
How much of this hatred of smokers is due to its adverse effects or current social trend. I'm not dellusional, I know the health risks and other downside. I'm also not trying to justify my addiction, which I am fully aware is what it is but there is definately a social witch hunt against smokers.
Do you really think anyone smokes cigarettes to "be classy"? That would be absurd.
To be honest, I think at times smoking can be quite classy.
I'm surprised to see so many anti-smoking advocates here; as if there weren't enough anti-smoking literature and propaganda already available in the media circuits.