Smokers Rights Petitions in Pennsylvania

  • by: Donna Crist
  • recipient: The State Representatives for preserving smoker's rights as far as constantly raising taxes to stop smokers

Because as people being over the age of 18 years of age we should have the right to continue to smoker without being overly taxed and the taxes being raised as a way of making smokers stop or prevent them from purchasing cigarettes or because they become un-affordable.

For any person who is over the age of 18 years old and enjoys smoking and also feels they have an equal right to purchase or smoke  then please, sign this as a way of showing your support to let our representatives (who we personally elected into office as a voice for the people)  know we do not support the idea of raising taxes on packs of cigarettes to the degree we can no longer afford to purchase them. It is our right to smoke and if they take this basic right away from the people what will they decide to take away from the people who elected them into office in order to control the lifestyle we choose to enjoy? Each time the taxes are raised then the price raises to the point we can no longr afford to purchase them. I have cancer and it didn't come from smoking, but it seems not to matter, all that matters is it's just one more way to control the people and public. I do not deserve to be penalized because the government decides it will begin with this issuse. What issue next? The right to bear arms? The freedom of speech, or possibility of taking away the protection of our homes, selves, property or the disabled Americans. Nobody can say for sure but it will continue as long as nobody decides to stand up and make sure their voices are heard. I am not going to sit back and watch and wait to see their country would become a joke, because all those who stood bravely and held their heads their heads high and the actions already taken that affected our people in charge of our military has been it taken apart to the point that defending our country would be something that could not happen without having yet another draft. As Americans we have already had so many rights taken away from all of us and as the silence continues so will our freedoms disappear. If you choose not to sign or get involved that becomes your choice but after the dust finally begins to settle those Americans who still care about this country and our rights as citizens then maybe for just one brief moment you will see that their is a need to take a stand for somebody who is not able to speak for themselves. If your parent, family  or any citizens or anybody who ever fought to keep our American freedoms intact then this is the first level of the government choosing what they feel is the way we should have only the freedoms they think is acceptable. If you do not smoke and do not want to sign because of that at least remember you are helping the government to decide what is best for each American, not only because they have created so many fears based solely to make you believe their creative spins on facts or because once you willing allow the government to begin controlling our own things we enjoy no matter if the reason is in their beliefs harmful, it still should be the American persons choice to do as they wish. Literally our choice and freedom. If allowed to remove or decide we no longer have a choice then we give them the power to take away whatever they belief is beneficial to the government as a whole. Cigarettes do not cost upwards of 6 to 15 dollars a pack to make it has become greed. It puts the farmers who grow tabbacco out of business and when farmers cannot support themselves they lose their land because the government has once again overstepped their boundaries or have chosen their homes, land and lifestyle no longer have any meaning. There are many people affected by this freedom we as Americans care about but watch it will be guns, or nationalities that are made to suffer because nobody stood up this time and allowed the Government to do as they wish without ever asking any citizen their thoughts before taking the actions they choose. No matter what you decide, some of us enjoy smoking our cigarettes and for the last few years the government has set it's sights on taking away the one freedom we do nothing in any way of hurting others by doing ( maybe ourselves) but at the very least it still becomes our choice! Some may believe that smoking is not a right but as long as I earn my own money and decide to spend it on whatever I choose then it's my right because I paid with them with my money and whatever I spend my money on as long as it's not illegal then it is clearly my right to spend, use and do as I wish with that!


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