# Free cigarettes for vaccines? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [January 10, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548 "2022-01-10T20:42:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/1 "2022-01-10T20:42:08Z")
A modest proposal: offer a carton of cigarettes (their choice of brand) to any currently unvaccinated person who gets a Covid vaccine. Two advantages: it induces some of these dumbasses to get vaccinated, AND it accelerates their dying of something other than Covid. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/2 "2022-01-10T20:55:15Z")
Make it mandatory to have a vax to go into the liquor store. (Here they’re including pot stores, too!) That ought to drive up numbers, at least that’s the hope! ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/3 "2022-01-10T21:11:48Z")
Well, that’s getting into all the anti-mandate stuff that they enjoy trolling the libs about. My way, you’re just giving them free shit. I’d love to hear their whining about that. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/4 "2022-01-10T23:16:50Z")
Around here, they’re giving $100 for the vaccine. You can buy a lot of cigs with that. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/5 "2022-01-10T23:26:11Z")
In Quebec, they’re [doing just that](https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/01/07/quebec-covid-vaccine-passport-liquor-cannabis/) beginning January 18th. I’ve heard that first shot vaccinations have risen 400% since the new year, but I’m not sure if that’s confirmed data. ETA: I didn’t realize you’re Canadian. Are you in Quebec? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/6 "2022-01-10T23:30:04Z")
> [@Roger\_That](#): > > My way, you’re just giving them free shit. I’d love to hear their whining about that. You don’t remember them losing their fucking minds when Krispy Kreme did that? ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/7 "2022-01-10T23:39:06Z")
Missed that one. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/8 "2022-01-10T23:42:49Z")
Not very many people smoke anymore, and free cash is a better idea. ---
**Author:** ![Roger\_That](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roger_that/32/8505_2.png) [@Roger\_That](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_That)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/9 "2022-01-10T23:43:27Z")
Cash isn’t fatal enough for me. (Unless snorted.) ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2022, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-cigarettes-for-vaccines/957548/10 "2022-01-10T23:43:54Z")
Why couldn’t they have given _me_ $100 when I got my vaccine? I coulda used that money to buy, you know, _food_ or something.