> regressive tax that mostly punishes the poor for smoking "The poor" need to reevaluate their priorities if smoking is their choice for spending their limited

> regressive tax that mostly punishes the poor for smoking "The poor" need to reevaluate their priorities if smoking is their choice for spending their limited resources. How else should activities that are bad for society be discouraged? It's interesting that the rich are much more likely to choose not to smoke even though they are the ones who can actually afford it. I'm not sure what that means but it's interesting to me. Smoking rates go down by level of education but is that cause or correlation? What makes poor people want to smoke more than rich? > If cost of living issues were really their number one priority then these sin taxes would be the first to go. Not sure about this. Cost of living IMO is about affordable housing, food and transport. You know, the actual essentials, not non-essential "luxuries" such as poisonous addictions.