European Tour 2011 - smokers

     This one is for the smokers.  Cigarette smokers.  (Sorry boys, didn't get a chance to smoke any real shit on this trip.  Put the feelers out there but nobody really trusts an American in Europe.)  Anyway.  Here in the states we're paying outrageous prices for cigarettes.  The taxes are more than the actual cost of the product.  In New York you can pay up to $12 for a pack of 20 smokes.  That's bullshit!  But I didn't really have to tell you that, did I?  The last 2 packs of butts I bought were from the "Dubbele Adelaar" in Hooglede, Belgium.  From a vending machine.  Remember those?  Now, I'm a Camel Lights smoker ( Or Camel Blue whatever-the-fuck smoker.)  They weren't available but the 24 count Pall Mall was.  For 5 euro. That's around 7.50 U.S. dollars, on the heavy side.  Still way the fuck less than anything you can purchase in New York, plus 4 more smokes!  And!!!?  They all cost the same.  Let me clarify.  There appears to be no "state-by-state" regulation on cigarette prices.  Wherever I was in any given country the price for the same pack of butts remained the same throughout the land.  There's a government seal similiar to our state seal on each pack.  Except their seal also denotes price.  Imagine that.  Here's the price.  Pay it ...or don't.  You ain't gonna find a better deal.  Talk about regulation!  
     I guess my real gripe stems from this:  America is exploiting cigarette smokers unfairly and unjustly.  Taxes on our cigarettes rise steadily year after year.  For what?  They say it's supposed to act as a deterrent, to turn people off from smoking.  If that ain't a steaming pile of horse shit I don't know what is... other than an actual steaming pile of horse shit, I'm well aware of what that is thanks due to my neighbors.  
     The government knows smoking is an addiction.  They openly preach on it.  They also know that we, as addicts, will continue to buy tobacco regardless of cost 'cause we're fucking addicted!  So I say FUCK YOU AMERICA!  If you all agree smoking is so deadly to our health than BAN FUCKING SMOKING!  If it's killing that many people each year than why the fuck do you continue to let us smoke?  ...Oh yeah, that's right, 'cause we're paying your mother fucking bills!  You hypocritical pieces of shit!  I hope you die from lung cancer.  

hugs and kisses

gII