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Originally Posted by Frankster
To Igottago - no, really, you don't want everyone to stop smoking. A single pack of cigarettes is taxed something crazy like $6 a pack. I smoked 4 packs a week, so that's $24 a week and $1248 a year. If there are 500,00 smokers in alberta, that is $6.24 million a year. Do you really want to make up all of those taxes...
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Not really, but on the flipside, how much do smoking related illnesses cost our health care system? Surely we'd save some dollars on that end.
^^MarchHare beat me to it.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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