Picking on smokers?

This from CNN; http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/01/cigarette.tax/index.html
Larry Jukes said he remembers when he could buy 10 cigarette packs for $2.50.
But he'd now take the days when -- just last month -- he could buy his carton of choice for $49.

Thanks in part to the largest-ever federal cigarette tax increase -- a nearly 62-cents-a-pack hike that starts Wednesday but was reflected in many prices earlier -- Jukes on Tuesday paid more than $58 for a 10-pack carton at the Cigarette Store in Denver, Colorado.

That same store was selling it about $9 cheaper weeks ago. Jukes and other shoppers there said they feel stuck and taken advantage of.

"They're picking on us poor people, the ones that smoke," Jukes, a 65-year-old who has been smoking since he was a teen, said of the government. "They have been for years."

Sorry pal, but thats what you get for attempting to kill us with you're second hand smoke! I wish smokers would either shut the hell up or just go somewhere and die! I do believe that everyone has the right to end their own life (as smoking does) but they don't have the right to end MINE! They don't have the right to cause my insurance to be raised to pay for all their diseases. They also don't have the right to aggravate my sinus problems.  In short- if you don't like the price-QUIT SMOKING!