Really poor people benefit from processed, calorie dense, vitamin-enriched food because it's the cheapest way to get fed. The harmful effects barely affect them

Really poor people benefit from processed, calorie dense, vitamin-enriched food because it's the cheapest way to get fed. The harmful effects barely affect them because they cant afford to over-eat the stuff. So a processed food tax would be more harmful to the poor than a cigarette tax which, though burdensome, saves a lot of their lives. Food is good except its consumed in excess. Cigarettes are bad, period.