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Scott-1007208 As a childless Chicago smoker who is willing to pay over $8 per pack of cigarettes – almost $5 of which is tax going directly to the Chicago public schools – I am tired of the condescension. You express concerns for the children? Really? In addition to my property tax, I am sending $2000 annually in vice tax directly 'to the children'. This Chicago public school system is desperately underfunded so all of you anti-smokers so very concerned about my welfare need to make up your mind – do you want our money or not. If we do quit smoking (as appears to be the intent) everyone else will be subjected to a tax increase to compensate for smokers' dollars. Moreover, the Environmental Protection Agency just released a study re: Chicago air quality and the determination – pollutants in Chicago made living and breathing in Chicago equivalent to living with a 2-pack per day smoker. So as you drive your children to their latest activity secure in your gas guzzling SUV, lamenting your mother's indifference to your respiratory system, please know that you are contributing far more to the pollution problem than I. If you want to avoid smoke – go indoors – one place you know I will not be smoking by law and decide are you more concerned about my informed vice and health ramifications or my money and it's positive impact on YOUR children.

— Ragekity

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