Every tax punishes the poor first, but what's the other solution: Let the cigarette be affordable for the poor? According to the theory that poor people make ba

Every tax punishes the poor first, but what's the other solution: Let the cigarette be affordable for the poor? According to the theory that poor people make bad life choices[1], they'll smoke anyway; so the discussion is only whether the higher, middle and smart-lower classes would be deterred by taxes on toxic products, and the answer is yes, so let's not enter into a fallacy about the poor people to deter us from saving the rest of the people. [1] It's a theory I don't agree with – I think they're as responsible as us and taxes on cigarettes still deter them from smoking.