Day 94 – 2010

Easter Sunday

Eggs are dyed, baskets are ready, hidden treasures to be found – it is Easter again.

83 years old and still going strong

This is Sam, he is 83 years old and just purchased a trike to get around.  You go !!!!

Easter celebration

It was good to be together with everybody, a little strange for me perhaps, but comforting. As time flies, I remember hiding the eggs for the hunt so the kids could go and find them.  There were 10 (that was ways back,  today only four) just a couple of years ago. Well, now the “little” kids are hiding them for their cousins. One of the older ones is engaged to be married, the other one has her date set already. My daughter is invited to be the flower girl, she is very excited.

Easter impressions

BTW

Cigarettes rip off of the Century better late than never Can you say ENLIGHTENMENT?  What an eye opener (so I missed this time period too),  just as the gas prices went from $.50 to $2.86 or higher, the cigarette prices are not far behind it in terms of climbing cost  (yes that was a thirty  some odd years look back). Today I went to 7-eleven to get my usual Camel Light Filter Cigarettes and paid a whopping $5.36 for it, in my area they are still selling for $4.86.  Still, I did some math and figured that I spend already $456.84 this year on puffs.  That makes a total of $1,773.90 a year, yikes!!!  Then some other quick research and my mind is made up – QUIT – Health and PRINCIPLE. Here are some facts, just click on the heading bullet word to link to details. Ingredients I might as well eat an apple to get my fill of the stuff they add to the tobacco in terms of food additives, I did not even look at the rest of it. Is there still some tobacco in there?  Did you know that the cigarettes are turning themselves off now? Just look at the label (see inset), if you see this, the cigarettes will not burn if you don’t drag on it.  What chemical is that now? Taxes Where is all the money go to?  Can’t be just health care for smokers (or some Government wise guy who spends several hundred thousand on an escort service – tax dollars at work). - Federal excise taxes - $6,890,520,000 - State and local excise taxes - $16,206,204,000 - State cigarette sales taxes - $3,857,462,000 - Tobacco settlement payments - $8,150,800,000 The government per-pack profit from cigarettes in 2008 was $2.22 (or 50 percent of the cost of a pack of cigarettes); nearly eight times the profit of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company In 2008, government pocketed more tobacco revenue per minute ($66,928) than the average smoker brought home in a year ($36,330). Adult smokers make up about 20 percent of the population, yet  smokers as a group are the only ones singled out for more and more "sin" taxes. This is worst than the gas taxes.  Where is the money go?  The government makes more profit from us numb nuts who smoke than R.J. Reynolds. So there is the second reason to quit for good, besides health reasons.  The 60 stairs up are getting to me, lol… For you who want to get cigarettes cheap go to smokin4free.com.  However, if you want to contribute to the Government fund keep on buying them anywhere. I will keep you posted on the progress