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Random thoughts on how to Spend the Cigarette Tax Money

1. Build Memorials of the kids that have died in smoking-related deaths
2. Buy me a life chicon
3. War weapon education
4. Give money back to the tax payers
5. Expand Valley Fair
6. Let the Government decide
7. Buy Pools
8. Help sponsor more smoke-free public areas (restaurants, bowling alleys, etc.)
9. Give it to me
10. Use it very wisely
11. Buy cigarette companies and shut them down

12. Anything positive
13. Work programs and jobs for the poor
14. Make smoking illegal
15. Post the number of smoking-related deaths on billboards and other signs
16. Nonsmoking Daycare
17. Care of the environment
18. Send a monkey to Mars
19. Put outhouses in the Colorado Mountains
20. Ship all the cigarettes to Iraq
21. Address ADHD
22. Give smokers $1 every day they don’t smoke
23. Skate parks & pop for the homeless

Better uses for tobacco paper

Make greeting cards
Make origami things
Use it for toilet paper
Make playing cards

Uses for Tobacco Leaves

Use them to thatch roofs in Africa
Twist them into friendship bracelets
Make clothes for people in 3rd world countries out of them

Jobs for former tobacco employees

Write student English Papers
Work in the hospitals or funeral home so they see what smoking is doing to people
Train them to become lung doctors

Ways to try and get people to quit

1. Hide their cigarettes
2. Make them smoke outside in the freezing cold
3. Throw their cigarettes away
4. Pretend to cough up blood
5. Give them a dollar each day they don’t smoke
6. Tell them they’re special

7. Things to tell smokers
8. “You’re spending your children’s college funds”
9. “You are slowly dying”
10. “You’re slowly killing your family with 2nd hand smoke”
11. “You’re ruining your house and clothing”

Reasons to say No to smoke

1. It could kill my pets
2. It could slow you down in sports
3. It gets you hungry
4. It makes you go crazy
5. It could kill people
6. It causes fires
7. You could get hooked
8. Family
9. Bad influence on children and others
10. Could harm your heart
11. The treatment that you might have to go through if you end up smoking
12. People (friends, family, etc.) may look down on you
13. So you don’t hurt people in any way
14. Makes you depressed
15. Bad life
16. Make others have bad lives
17. No friends
18. Yellow teeth

19. Die faster
20. Harms your lungs
21. Could kill you
22. Expensive
23. Cancer
24. Pollution
25. It is harmful
26. Bad teeth
27. Taste bad
28. Harms environment
29. Kills brain cells
30. Causes stress
31. Don’t get girlfriends
32. Supports the tobacco companies
33. Addictive
34. Have less time to do things if you smoke
35. Smells really bad
36. Makes your walls turn different colors