Do you think the price of stop-smoking aids should be lowered so lower income people can afford them?

You mean the gum and patches? I think the government should just hand them out. Smoking is so nasty.

Yes. I think the price of everything should be lowered.

No, but maybe health insurance should cover them. It would be in their interest after all.

Given that they are cheaper than cigarettes, I really don't see the point.

It all depends on the means by which you achieve that end.

LOL as soon as they lower the cost of cigarettes for those with lower income.

I thought the price of these was already heavily subsidised. Maybe they are in Australia. I have no idea how much they cost. Cigarettes are really expensive here, so there's already a big financial incentive to stop smoking.

No

No. If people can't give up smoking without artificial aids that's their problem.

Back when Clinton was working on tobacco class action it was my thought that in exchange for immunity, the co.'s could gradually replace cigarettes with no tar or nicotine versions so that anyone continually using their product over three months would be left un-physically addicted. Instead we created a smokeless nicotine dispensary. They're advertising cool new flavors now. Soon they'll have cartoon animals.

interesting, is the price high?? i don't even know what the prices are.

You can't just wave a magic wand and make something cost less: someone will be paying the difference. Exactly how the price is lowered makes a big difference in my opinion.

I am in favor of all price reductions for any product!

Yes. I was at the pharmacy the other day, and two people bought stop-smoking gum. A box of the generic brand was $45. That's probably more than the equivalent quantity of cigarettes would cost.

Wow. That's a very good point. If people can afford to smoke, they can afford the aids to not smoke.

Anything to help people stop tearing up there bodies.

No. They cost about the same as a carton of cigarettes here ($50.00). If you can afford to smoke, you can afford to quit.

They're not expensive anyway.

At least that's the case here in Canada where cigarettes are taxed at about 350%.

I don't know the cost of stop-smoking aids relative to the cost of cigarettes, on a daily basis. If they cost more than cigarettes, then yes. But if they cost less, then no; any lower-income person who can afford to smoke can afford to stop instead.

I don't know. I wanted to say no because why should I subsidise an idiot who smokes, but I also think it would be good to get people off the crap so if the subsidies work then yes. Perhaps if the price of cigarettes were trebled it would help people find the will power they say they lack.

The smoking aids I've seen are higher priced than cigarettes where I live.

It's pentupled since I started. I have a machine to make my own now. That way I can also cut the tobacco with stop-smoking herbs.

I know people who always complain about money. I'm like, if you want more money, quit smoking. You'll save quite a few bucks, and maybe your life.

Imagine sleeping on the wood floor without bedding in a cold house next to an empty bed with a down comforter and flannel sheets available anytime you want (hour after hour, night after night, and your very tired). That's about what it feels like wanting your next cigarette. When I'm starving I get the impulse 'have a cigarette and coffee' and have to kick in with the reasoning 'no, what I actually need is food.'

The herbs havn't worked then? I used to have a machine when I smoked because my cigarettes used to come out looking like joints when I rolled by hand. I used to have filters too until I read that the filters also contain carcinogens. I used to crave taylor made smokes when I used tobacco because of all the extra chemicals they have for flavour and to keep them burning etc. I could never get my rollies to 'act like' taylor made smokes, even if I dried the tobacco out in the microwave.

The problem is not having the time and willpower to cut the tobacco. Tobacco's insidious; smoking because you're hungry or tired for instance.

Yes, and also things like emergency contraception and pregnancy tests and medicine. Buttercup syrup costs a bomb!

Well I have mixed feelings about it. Smokes are very expensive and I don't think the patches are priced much differently than the smokes.

I guess. I wouldn't really know, I quit wuite easily. I was never really hooked. I just thought I was. My Dad is trying to quit. He's doing pretty well.

Or because everyone around you is doing it.......

No one I hang out with does smoke though. I recall years ago at a computer convention of about 3000 attendees, 6 of which were in the smoking area and realized that smoking was making me an outcast. I started with harder stuff first, like russian tube cigarettes, weed, and swallowwart bidi's.

It would sure help me stop.

::arrogantly and mocking:: Yes. Why the fudge would I give $25 (+tax) on something to 'help' me stop smoking, when I for that money can get five cigarette packs.

Good survey.