While I know that quitting an addictive substance can be hard, that is no excuse for having started the use of one in the first place - especially in this day and age when anyone under 25 has grown up knowing from day one that smoking is addictive and causes cancer.

Before I came to UGA I was an assistant manager at a Bi-Lo grocery store and had the esteemed privilege of selling cigarettes to single parents in their twenties by the carton - the same single parents that would use government WIC vouchers and food stamps for their groceries.  The insult to the injury comes when these Emmy award winners get lung cancer and receive Medicaid healthcare for free because they spend all of their money on cigarettes!