Smoking Cessation

gives me the chills. I'd feel like shit and probably only be looking foreward to more drinking and smoking tonight with possibly intending to go clean again on Sunday and start all over. That would have really sucked. I'd also be something like $30 poorer.

I have $65 in cash on me right now. That came from a sale from the sideline business my girlfriend and I run. Most sales are at shows or off the web site but locals know to call me up or ask for stuff when they see me. I the past, cash like that would go pretty fast. Even reasonable drinking along with smoking, will drain that kind of money real quick. I was pretty used to usually having little or no cash on me. These days when a sale or two falls out of the sky and I handle it in person, I can end up needing to go make a deposit. Before November, that $65 would have been down to about $20 just on cigarettes and one night of drinking.

I can't imagine what some people I know must spend. Guys that go through two packs a day and drink almost every day? That has to be something like eight or nine hundred bucks a month! Want a big freakin' tax cut? Stop that shit!

I will remain firmly opposed to those type sin taxes though, even now that I am on the other side. I can't see making something that people are addicted to, even harder on them to afford. On the average it's more lower income people still smoking and drinking heavily. If something is worth taxpayer funding, we should all pay our fair share, not just stick it to the other guy because we can.