Aw! What a fucking traitor!

President Barack Obama signed a health initiative soon after taking office to increase the tobacco taxes to finance a major expansion of health insurance for children. Other tobacco products, from cigars to pipes and smokeless tobacco, will also see similarly large tax increases. For example, the tax on chewing tobacco will go from 19.5 cents per pound to 50 cents. The total expected to be raised over the 4½ year health-insurance expansion is nearly $33 billion.

Separately, Congress is considering legislation to empower the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco. That could lead to reformulated cigarettes. President Obama, who has struggled with his own cigarette habit, said he would sign such a bill.

That is not good cigarette karma. Not at all! He should know better.

I'm a long-time smoker, but it's been 66 days, 13 hours and 23 minutes  (give or take a few seconds) since the last time I took a drag off a cigarette (the longest I've gone since the Clinton administration), but I have half a mind to go light up right now and chain-smoke until my lungs are black, fitfully wheezing collections of charred tumor and I die slowly and painfully, a harsh burden upon an already over-strained health care system.

Just to spite him.