That refrain may be standard in every restaurant in the state, and the people shivering in the doorways of office buildings as they grab a smoke appear to be dwindling. That's 18 cents a smoke.
Tobacco companies are legal drug pushers, working insidiously amid our children.
We've seen it with Joe Camel and advertising that associates cigarette smoking with sex and good times. The percentage of teenagers who smoke went from 42 percent to 16 percent. As a society, we pay for the smoking habits that cause heart disease, lung cancer and emphysema. By targeting the young, tobacco companies create a generation of nicotine addicts. Once kids are smoking, it becomes much harder for them to quit.