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Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tobacco And Opium Have Broad Backs, And

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
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What a benefit would the american government, not yet relieved of its extreme need, render to itself, and to every city, village and hamlet in the states, if it would tax whiskey and rum almost to the point of prohibition! was it bonaparte who said that he found vices very good patriots? "he got five millions from the love of brandy, and he should be glad to know which of the virtues would pay him as much." tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.
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I thought you liberals cared about people, but here you're perfectly content to get them addicted to tobacco and make them pay taxes through the nose and continue to pay taxes through the nose and raise their taxes. and then you try to make 'em think you care about 'em by running psas telling them how they shouldn't smoke and how they should quit. you're exactly right. if they really cared, they would ban the product, but they can't, because the revenue from tobacco taxes - i'm not kidding you - funds children's health care programs, and a number of other things as well.
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I hated tobacco. i could have almost lent my support to any institution that had for its object the putting of tobacco smokers to death...i now feel that smoking in moderation is a comfortable and laudable practice, and is productive of good. there is no more harm in a pipe than in a cup of tea. you may poison yourself by drinking too much green tea, and kill yourself by eating too many beefsteaks. for my part, i consider that tobacco, in moderation, is a sweetener and equalizer of the temper.
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Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries. in the united states, the subtle spell of opium has been broken by restrictive legislation; the grip of the rum demon has been loosened by the prohibition amendment to the constitution, but the tobacco habit still maintains its strangle-hold and more than one hundred million victims of tobaccoism daily burn incense to the smoke god.
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Joy is what makes life worth living, but for many joy seems hard to find. they complain that their lives are sorrowful and depressing. what then brings the joy we so much desire? are some people just lucky, while others have run out of luck? strange as it may sound, we can choose joy. two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently than the other. one may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. the other may choose despair and be destroyed by it. what makes us human is precisely this freedom of choice.
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The federal government, state governments will not do without that tax revenue from tobacco no matter what. i've always thought it was one of the most contradictory setups that we have, because everything said publicly about the product is intended to besmirch it, impugn it, and do the same thing to the people that use it. and yet here's the government scoring, i mean, you want to talk about obscene profits, the government doesn't do a damn thing but stick its hand in. the government taxes tobacco at every stage. it taxes tobacco when the farmer's thinking about planting it.
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