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    Quote Originally Posted by Sly View Post
    I may try to quit again this year since I'll be on the west coast and butts cost about $5 or more per pack. I'll nearly be able to hike for free!
    I guess I'm too old. I can't fathom paying five bucks a pack. They were about 60 cents a pack when I quit and I thought that was outrageous. I remember buying cigarettes for two bucks a carton in North Carolina when I used to drive through there in the mid-sixties.

    About heath and cigarettes: this may or may not be true, but I once read that the social security system would have been bankrupt years ago if no one smoked. All those people living longer and collecting Soc Sec checks. The article was a rebuttal to another article complaining that ciragette smokers were dragging down the health system. They made a good point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ron Haven View Post
    PS,I got to hike a little bit with Jack today and we dug ramps yesterday.
    Ramps are one plant I haven't been able to ID consistently. I've seen photos and know what they look like in general but haven't been succesful in finding any. I bet I walk past a lot of them though. I need to get a lesson from you sometime.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dances with Mice View Post
    Ramps are one plant I haven't been able to ID consistently. I've seen photos and know what they look like in general but haven't been succesful in finding any. I bet I walk past a lot of them though. I need to get a lesson from you sometime.
    You should come to my yard.....dig away!.......damn ramps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Frosty View Post
    About heath and cigarettes: this may or may not be true, but I once read that the social security system would have been bankrupt years ago if no one smoked. All those people living longer and collecting Soc Sec checks. The article was a rebuttal to another article complaining that ciragette smokers were dragging down the health system. They made a good point.
    Sounds reasonable on the surface, but I imagine the costs to Medicare/Medicaid to treat smokers with emphysema, asthma, heart problems, and lung cancer is probably much greater than any savings created by paying them fewer years. Not including all those folks who get disability from smoking related disorders, which increases the number of Social Security checks given out.

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