http://www.gopetition.com/signatures/stop-smoking-bans-and-increased-tobacco-taxes.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:26 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/17329970?utm_medium=rss If states can illegality weed that messes up the brain and gets up to not be able to function correctly then leave our cigs alone. We do what we want and when we want to. It's the USA. Where we should be able to do as we wish. Not our issue if non smokers don't like it. And I bet half of these idiots that makes laws don't smoke. So they don't fully understand what they are doing. No one is gonna quit Bc of bans. Or costs. Or anything. We just adapt and become sneaky. We shouldn't have to go to reservations for cheaper smokes. Or search for jobs that allow us to smoke during our breaks. My job ATM doesn't allow smoking. And I barely even get my lunch break when I work 10 hours. It's not fair or right. People should be able to get breaks at work the right way. I wouldn't even care if I had to walk off the property. I just want to be able to smoke for the old price of cigs. If you want others to quit stop over pricing everything. The price for nicotine gum is outrageous. Leave smokers alone! At home! At work! Or anywhere else!!! Or eventually we will rise up.

]]> Tue, 20 May 2014 02:11:06 UTC 17329970 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/16354394?utm_medium=rss Wed, 4 Dec 2013 09:30:56 UTC 16354394 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15868068?utm_medium=rss why don't you put that many taxes on coffee and not cigarettes. you can at least drink coffee any where you want

]]> Wed, 18 Sep 2013 05:37:23 UTC 15868068 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/15868053?utm_medium=rss why don't you put that many taxes on coffee and not cigarettes. you can at least drink coffee any where you want

]]> Wed, 18 Sep 2013 05:36:03 UTC 15868053 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/9994729?utm_medium=rss STOP USING TOBACCO AS A SCAPEGOAT!!!!

]]> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:19:59 UTC 9994729 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/7545920?utm_medium=rss Smokers pay taxes and more, therefore we do have rights for this expensive habits, which is legal, according to FDA

]]> Fri, 7 May 2010 06:48:45 UTC 7545920 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/6334668?utm_medium=rss This tax is unjust, misguided, and abusive. Obama states this tax is to help smoker's quit, and in the same sentence he claims to belive that this tax will raise 33 billion in funds for child healthcare. Raising the price on drugs wouldn't help addicts quit, it would only cause them to suffer more harshly: and all of this during an economic recession. Thank you for making my life as a full-time student more difficult... the price of rolling tobacco was increased over 300%, thats economic rape.

]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:31:32 UTC 6334668 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5520973?utm_medium=rss Enough is enough!!!!!!!!!

]]> Thu, 21 May 2009 11:53:15 UTC 5520973 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5512223?utm_medium=rss Tue, 19 May 2009 11:59:18 UTC 5512223 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5272786?utm_medium=rss Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:41:57 UTC 5272786 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5265908?utm_medium=rss Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:25:15 UTC 5265908 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5251467?utm_medium=rss the american government are singling the smokers out why . are they looking for another prohibition on smokers. maybe the american people should sue the federal government for discrimination . seem to me the government is trying to control peoples desicions i dont tell them when the can have there drink of whisky or wine

]]> Thu, 9 Apr 2009 09:51:37 UTC 5251467 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5240153?utm_medium=rss I don't see this as a free country anymore. Where are our rights and freedom of choice.

]]> Mon, 6 Apr 2009 04:19:53 UTC 5240153 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5239021?utm_medium=rss this is clearly an attack on our rights. the us goverment needs to review the original version of the bill of rights. it does not say the goverment has the right to make our choices for us based on what they think is best!!!! it clearly gives us the right to choose. i guess our ancestors fought for nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this has gotten ridicculus nobody stands up for our rights anymore they just say there isn't anything we can do about it well i think that is a bunch of bs !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

]]> Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:31:32 UTC 5239021 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5229575?utm_medium=rss The tobacco tax is one of the worst examples of the governments attempt to extort more of our disposal income. The money that was taken from the Tobacco Companies in the law suit was never used for health care or help to smokers. This was all put into the general fund to be used by the representatives in congress. Why would we trust what they will do with this new tax.

]]> Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:26:36 UTC 5229575 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5229019?utm_medium=rss Fri, 3 Apr 2009 06:03:20 UTC 5229019 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5220138?utm_medium=rss Thu, 2 Apr 2009 06:35:38 UTC 5220138 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5219557?utm_medium=rss When did this cease to be AMERICA?

]]> Thu, 2 Apr 2009 03:51:54 UTC 5219557 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5217422?utm_medium=rss All I want to say is these tax increases are crazy. Can't you pepole give the little guy a break.

]]> Wed, 1 Apr 2009 04:47:32 UTC 5217422 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5212657?utm_medium=rss crazy thought we were supose to get america moving not kill jobs

]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:35:29 UTC 5212657 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5211147?utm_medium=rss Smoking is one of many luxuries, but it also creates jobs. Where will those thousands of jobs go and the industry itself (upon which this country was founded), if the government can freely discriminate against smokers?

]]> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:58:05 UTC 5211147 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5207111?utm_medium=rss Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:36:02 UTC 5207111 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5107534?utm_medium=rss Smoking is a choice each person has. The Uninted states Economy is in bad condition now and loss of jobs is on the rise. Raising Taxes on tobacco products will only increase the loss of jobs and loss of revenue to Tobacco Farmers. Do you really need more job losses in this country? Leave our Tobacco alone and Tax Alchahol instead Drinking kills far more than those uf us that smoke.

]]> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:19:19 UTC 5107534 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5010372?utm_medium=rss Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:57:44 UTC 5010372 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5010366?utm_medium=rss WHY NOT TAX THE ALCOHOL THAT IS USED MORE THAN TOBACO

]]> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:53:05 UTC 5010366 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/5010363?utm_medium=rss WHY NOT TAX THE ALCOHOL THAT IS USED MORE THAN TOBACO

]]> Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:50:47 UTC 5010363 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4865245?utm_medium=rss How is raising anything including taxes going to help the economy mess we all are in? IT WON'T!

]]> Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:02:40 UTC 4865245 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4854065?utm_medium=rss It is time to stop targeting the smoker and start after everyone to support different "Federal Funded Programs".

]]> Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:44:43 UTC 4854065 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4842473?utm_medium=rss Im simply tired of the unproportionate taxes on tobacco products. Why not raise taxes on booze, coffee, red meat, soda etc. The amount of taxes on tobacco products is way out of line. Some folks might like to skydive,
and that could be bad for your health too. So lets tax the heck out of that. How about a penny tax on soft drink? STOP TARGETING SMOKERS.

]]> Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:37:55 UTC 4842473 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4834590?utm_medium=rss Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:39:08 UTC 4834590 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4831266?utm_medium=rss I enjoy smoking and am paying my fair share of cigarette taxes. Please do not add any more taxes.

]]> Sun, 25 Jan 2009 06:45:00 UTC 4831266 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4780639?utm_medium=rss Taxes on tobacco products have gone through the roof and there is no indication that these increases have done anything but place undo hardship on the poor. These increased revenues are not used for smoking cessation as promised. These dollars are going into the general fund at the state and federal level. It is time for cowardly politicians to stop abusing hard working Americans.

]]> Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:40:06 UTC 4780639 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4543658?utm_medium=rss if alcohol is legel smoking should be treated with the same fairness.

]]> Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:35:25 UTC 4543658 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4529221?utm_medium=rss Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:17:11 UTC 4529221 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4494049?utm_medium=rss If our Forefathers had even a remote idea that this country was so foolishly going to restrict the rights of its citizens to smoke, they most certainly would have included that in the constitution along with our right to bear arms and all other rights which we supposedly have, but which seem to be less and less as the years go by.

]]> Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:41:45 UTC 4494049 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4457268?utm_medium=rss The taxes are getting outrageous, your making life more difficult to tolerate.

]]> Sat, 8 Nov 2008 07:21:59 UTC 4457268 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4391622?utm_medium=rss Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:27:38 UTC 4391622 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4346356?utm_medium=rss As a non-smoker, I make my own decisions, I dont government to punish businesses for my own sake.

]]> Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:20:35 UTC 4346356 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4340374?utm_medium=rss raised cig taxes for whatever reason, is unconstitutional, along with smoking bans in restaurants, and now bars? Why don't non-smokers stay home, or put up their own non-smoking establishments? It is their choice to be around smokers, or not.

]]> Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:44:35 UTC 4340374 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4323685?utm_medium=rss Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:08:47 UTC 4323685 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4315212?utm_medium=rss Prohibition gave organized crime a big boost. Legislating morals does not work.

]]> Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:45:09 UTC 4315212 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4301337?utm_medium=rss Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:05:21 UTC 4301337 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4274754?utm_medium=rss Smokers need protection from the insidious, senseless bans taking place around the world. Government entities need us to keep smoking for the tax revenue, yet we can't smoke anywhere. How stupid is that?

]]> Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:51:14 UTC 4274754 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4268940?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Oct 2008 11:34:41 UTC 4268940 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4268725?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:51:24 UTC 4268725 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4268380?utm_medium=rss Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:50:19 UTC 4268380 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266533?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:59:04 UTC 4266533 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266440?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:07:50 UTC 4266440 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266437?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 11:05:19 UTC 4266437 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266273?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:57:09 UTC 4266273 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266207?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:22:43 UTC 4266207 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266056?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:00:19 UTC 4266056 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266042?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 07:55:46 UTC 4266042 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4266029?utm_medium=rss Sun, 5 Oct 2008 07:52:33 UTC 4266029 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4249370?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:50:39 UTC 4249370 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4212774?utm_medium=rss Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:50:43 UTC 4212774 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4212449?utm_medium=rss Smomg bans and exorbitant taxes disproportantly effects Veterans

]]> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:00:29 UTC 4212449 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4183312?utm_medium=rss This hypocrisy and unfairness and unconstitutional legislation must end. Nobody is calling for the ban on tobacco growing if it is so dangerous. And do you remember from American history how important the tobacco crop was to the survival of Jamestown and later colonies??

]]> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:33:17 UTC 4183312 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4180642?utm_medium=rss Thu, 18 Sep 2008 01:37:10 UTC 4180642 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4167359?utm_medium=rss This petition could change a lot of minds about imposing smoking bans and is only fair.

]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:13:58 UTC 4167359 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4165630?utm_medium=rss I'm an adult male. I'm not an advocate of smoking, but rather an advocate of personal freedoms, rights and choice. I'm sick and tired of being the states' ATM, yet I'm told by the ''law'' that I'm not allowed to smoke in an *adult* establishment made up of crowds 21 years of age and older, that also sells wine, liquor and beer. I will actively resist this law in Ohio and only patronize establishments that allow tobacco smoking (a LEGAL product) on the premises.

]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 12:01:09 UTC 4165630 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4163251?utm_medium=rss Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:46:07 UTC 4163251 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4153088?utm_medium=rss If enacted, this would be the fairest and most just law to date. The government entities do not mind using our money for programs that everyone enjoys or uses, but they want to ban smokers from everywhere, including their own homes. It can not be both ways for the government. The government is supposed to protect all citizens of the United States of America. It is also suppose to treat all citizens of the United States of America fairly. When will our present government start doing this?

]]> Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:07:30 UTC 4153088 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4151856?utm_medium=rss Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:48:38 UTC 4151856 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4145391?utm_medium=rss Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:48:23 UTC 4145391 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4141051?utm_medium=rss Remember the Boston Tea Party.

]]> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:16:41 UTC 4141051 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4140957?utm_medium=rss If smoking is banned for public safety then so should liquor by the drink. How many people are killed every year by drunk drivers? If people want to drink let them do it at home and stay off the streets. Nonsmokers have a right to smoke free areas. Shouldn' I have the right to drunk free roads?

]]> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:03:48 UTC 4140957 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4140861?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:48:24 UTC 4140861 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4140297?utm_medium=rss Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:23:51 UTC 4140297 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4134682?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:15:55 UTC 4134682 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4133996?utm_medium=rss Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:48:25 UTC 4133996 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4133334?utm_medium=rss Stop punishing smokers for using a legal substance.

]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:34:24 UTC 4133334 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4127056?utm_medium=rss Government power is designed to empower its people, yet our republic has forgotten the clearly documented woes of mob-rule. It is time for the Congress to stand up for All of its Americans and ensure an equal and fair system of justice, taxes, and liberties.

]]> Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:13:00 UTC 4127056 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4126294?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:36:58 UTC 4126294 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4118489?utm_medium=rss Bans are not about public health as there is no risk from SHS as proven by the great majority of studies.

]]> Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:57:05 UTC 4118489 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4118468?utm_medium=rss Tue, 9 Sep 2008 01:50:55 UTC 4118468 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4116330?utm_medium=rss Here in Wisconsin, we have legislatures that want a statewide ban to "Level the playing field". They don't think it's fair for bars that allow smoking gain customers when bars in smoke free communites are losing them. That's pretty counter-productive if you ask me. Leave business in the hands of bar owners.

]]> Mon, 8 Sep 2008 05:23:19 UTC 4116330 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4114701?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Sep 2008 01:47:48 UTC 4114701 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4114602?utm_medium=rss I strongly urge Congress to support this petition.

]]> Mon, 8 Sep 2008 01:36:46 UTC 4114602 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4110593?utm_medium=rss Mon, 8 Sep 2008 06:39:32 UTC 4110593 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4109064?utm_medium=rss It's about time to hit them in the pocket like they hit us!

]]> Sun, 7 Sep 2008 10:16:24 UTC 4109064 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4108269?utm_medium=rss Bans of any kind reek of "1984". First the smokers, then the fat people, what is next? Who are you going to call when it is your turn to be signaled out?

]]> Sun, 7 Sep 2008 06:58:59 UTC 4108269 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4108197?utm_medium=rss The American tobacco consumer has been taxed at many times that of the other product consumers and this policy of Selective Taxation needs to stop and stop now.

]]> Sun, 7 Sep 2008 06:42:36 UTC 4108197 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4107485?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Sep 2008 03:37:10 UTC 4107485 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4105795?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Sep 2008 09:53:18 UTC 4105795 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4104256?utm_medium=rss Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:38:44 UTC 4104256 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4102010?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Sep 2008 01:34:22 UTC 4102010 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4101619?utm_medium=rss I am tired of being discriminated against because I smoke. When will the nonsmokers realize that they enjoy many of the benefits that the taxes I pay help pay for and they get it for free. I no longer purchase taxable items in Washington state, I go to Idaho.

]]> Sat, 6 Sep 2008 12:09:42 UTC 4101619 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4100688?utm_medium=rss KEEP GOVERNMENT OUT OF MY PERSONAL CHOICES. IT IS MY LIFE, MY MONEY, AND MY CHOICE.

]]> Sat, 6 Sep 2008 08:53:23 UTC 4100688 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4100672?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Sep 2008 08:50:13 UTC 4100672 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4100242?utm_medium=rss Sat, 6 Sep 2008 07:04:15 UTC 4100242 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4099892?utm_medium=rss I have been a smoker for 40 years. I am not a second-class citizen and will not be treated like one. Stop the bans now! I refuse to pay anymore state and federal taxes on any manufactured cigarettes. I am now making my own. On Sept. 11th our state ban goes into effect. All I can say on this is "Let the games begin". Smokers unite!

]]> Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:45:14 UTC 4099892 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4099417?utm_medium=rss Stop the Smoking Bans! Stop the Tabacco Taxes! STOP the DISCRIMINATION AGAINST SMOKERS!!!!!!

]]> Sat, 6 Sep 2008 12:11:38 UTC 4099417 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4098955?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:22:14 UTC 4098955 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4098939?utm_medium=rss Smoking bans do not work financially or any other way either.

]]> Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:19:36 UTC 4098939 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4098359?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:19:01 UTC 4098359 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4098335?utm_medium=rss You should know, smokers DO NOT pay these taxes. They are not the Federal government, so DO NOT print themselves more money to pay it. They shift ALL that spending from SOME OTHER PART of their budgets. Tobacco taxes get sucked out of the GENERAL economy, just as ALL other taxes do. Everyone in America is losing money because smokers are paying EXTORTION.

]]> Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:01:08 UTC 4098335 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4098164?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:00:50 UTC 4098164 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4098103?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:48:49 UTC 4098103 https://www.gopetition.com/signature/locate/4097834?utm_medium=rss Fri, 5 Sep 2008 04:06:57 UTC 4097834