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Everyone who doesn't smoke subsidizes the high health care costs for those who do smoke. Thus, to not tax tobacco users to pay for their healthcare costs means

Everyone who doesn't smoke subsidizes the high health care costs for those who do smoke. Thus, to not tax tobacco users to pay for their healthcare costs means an implicit tax on those of us who don't smoke. Increasing the cost of tobacco is the best way to help smokers to quit and to stop teens from starting.

rebootthesystem 10y ago
This thinking is twisted. If you smoke intensely all of your life you will die a horrible death for being a moron. That is probably the worst example you could have pulled. There is no excuse for sucking smoke into your lungs. None. If you are looking for sympathy you are not going to find it here. I should not have to pay for the medical care of a smoker. A cancer patient? Absolutely. A smoker? Eat shit (or tobacco) and die. This also reveals just how royally fucked up our politics have become. If there's one product that should be absolutely positively banned and hyper-criminalized it is tobacco and cigarettes. Instead, crooked politicians make deals and tax them. Tax them? No!!!! Ban the shit! Check this out: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_facts/ http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/fast_... The consequences of smoking are staggering. So, we use taxes to try to influence behavior and pay costs? Nonsense. No, taxes should be reserved to pay for the cost of running our government and infrastructure and NOT used for social engineering. That's perverted and it simply does not work. Another case in point: War on Drugs. What a joke.