Poor = Smoking?

Okay, so Fox has “Obama’s Top 5 Broken Promises”

This is quoted exactly:

What he said first:

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” (September 12, 2008, Dover, N.H.)

What he did first:

By signing H.R. 2 into law, Obama happily signed onto the idea that smokers should pay for a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). Cigarette taxes are going up 61 cents a pack starting April 1. Obama signed this bill knowing that the majority of smokers in the United States are working poor, and one in four lives below the federal poverty line.

Source: http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/03/03/kerpen_obama_budget/

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Okay, first off, being poor doesn’t mean you smoke, that’s the first thing. and uh, is it new or have we gone over this? SMOKING IS BAD!! The whole point of this is to help people, think about it, it discourages people from killing people around them with seconhand smoke and killing themselves AND it helps kids get insurance. I mean really, who would honestly throw a fit about this. “Oh my God! Those people who do drugs really need a break!” Seriously? It’s called “REHAB!!!” or how ’bout “don’t start at all”? Ya know. I mean really, who wants to smell, and there is no benefit to smoking, it’s a drug. And if it wasn’t so popular they would have banned it like they did marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs. Really, they tried it with alcohol, don’t believe me, learn about prohibition. “In the history of the United States, Prohibition is the period from 1920 to 1933, during which the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol for consumption were banned nationally as mandated in the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution” Really, but it failed because the rich people were doing to despite the law. So if anyone class should be “labeled” smokers, it should be the rich. Why? Well simple, drugs are expensive, rich people have money, there fore the people who can afford to kill themselves slowly would be more likely than the people who can’t afford to kill themselves slowly at all. It’s such an obnoxious thing to say though, this person clearly stated it, “it’s known that the poor..” God, the only known thing about the poor, is that they’re poor, other than that they all have different reasons for being there, and I’m sure there are plenty where it isn’t their fault. What makes me just so mad is that this article is bashing Obama about promises, when really this has nothing to do with a promise. It discourages smoking, helps go to an insurance fund for children, I mean really. Tax drugs? What a dumb idea…. um… they tax candy stupid-so of course they’re going to tax drugs! Please! Make the taxes so ridiculously high, then no one can afford them, then everyone will have to find a way to quit and no one will start and we can ban it! If smoking only affected one person, you know, the person actually smoking it, I’d say ‘hey, let them kill themselves’ but it’s not. Parents smoke when they have kids, inside the tummy and outside, and it really screws with children. People have to smoke outside, think of cities that are just full of people, all those people smoking, no one can truly avoid it. Asthma, ever thought of that? I remember going out with a friend and we went by this person smoking and she had to grab her rescue inhaler, why? Simply because certain things bother her, her breathing and what-not it’s actually quite common. The point is, smoking reaches others, and no one should have to smell that or deal with people throwing deadly chemicals into the air. Because that’s what iti is. Everyone should know this by now, Rat poison, it kills rats, duh! It’s in cigarettes, when they breath out all that smoke in your face… you’re breathing in rat poison, all the gross chemicals you are, except one thing… you’re not a smoker! So I fully agree on the tax.