Are you tired of shelling out thousands of dollars every year for cigarettes? The state governments know that smokers will always smoke so they continue to slap them with “sin taxes” jacking the price of smokes further up. Places like New York and California are seeing record prices for packs of cigarettes these days.

Isn’t it a pain to have to go outside every time you want to smoke? Long gone are the days when you could smoke inside in most locations. Even if you can smoke somewhere you often have to deal with non-smokers who don’t like your harmful smoke around them. Cold winters and sweltering summers make smoking outside no fun.

We are all well aware of the nasty health effect associated with smoking cigarettes. The tar, chemicals and carcinogens combine to give people heart disease, cancer, emphysema and a variety of other diseases. More people die in this country every year from cigarette related deaths than anything else!

Yet people continue to smoke because the nicotine found in tobacco is so addictive. Tobacco products like cigarettes, dip, cha, cigars, pipes and others are slowly killing millions of us yet we refuse to break the cycle of addiction that keeps us locked in.

Despite the health effects smokers have been forced into the elements to get their fix around the country. Many states, counties, cities, private businesses and workplaces have adopted anti-smoking policies. Some places even ban you from smoking outside near entrances.

Unless you have been living under a rock for the last couple of decades or are completely ignorant you know that smoking cigarettes is bad for you and those around you. Long gone are the “Mad Men” days when you could smoke in your office, on a plane or at the dinner table.

Most states have pushed smokers out into the elements completely and many workplaces and public gathering areas do not allow you to even smoke near the entrance. At the very best you are separated and quarantined in your own area of a restaurant.

The reason all of this is happening is because the scientific evidence that smoke and second hand smoke are extremely harmful to your health is overwhelming. Waitresses, bar tenders and other people bombarded with smoke at their workplace got tired of getting cancer and dying because of their line of work.

Now studies show that even so called “third hand smoke” is extremely dangerous. This is the smoke residue that lingers in carpet, clothing and even the walls. This left over smoke carries with it all of the disease causing, life ending unhealthiness that regular smoke does.

For decades now people have known that smoking cigarettes is extremely hazardous for your health. For years the big tobacco companies tried to hide the negative and addictive aspects of smoking from the public. Even though everyone now understand the damage done by smoking many find it hard to quit.

The addictive nature of nicotine, the oral fixations and habit of smoking all keep users coming back. While there are many treatments for stopping smoking they are extremely hard, involve drugs, nicotine patches or therapy. Quitting smoking is so hard that when people check in for rehab for drugs like cocaine and heroine they don’t bother to get them to quit smoking because it would be too hard.

Smokers are often banned from getting their fix in public as well. Restaurants, bars, cities, states, workplaces and public facilities have all banned smoking inside and often outside by the entrances. The smell and negative health effects have turned much of society against smokers in public.