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With that spin, sure it would seem that way. You might consider it "Warfare" if the poor were being forced to smoke, or say there weren't pictures of cancer on
by ManFromUranus 9y ago
With that spin, sure it would seem that way. You might consider it "Warfare" if the poor were being forced to smoke, or say there weren't pictures of cancer on the cover of the packages of cigarettes, or minors were allowed to smoke or there wasn't a huge vice tax on cigarettes essentially everywhere in the world, and a ban on cigarette advertising in most countries then yeah if you ignore all of that you might consider it class warfare...
- CryptoFascist 9y agoYou can apply post-facto justification all you like, but cigarette taxes are still regressive, no matter how you look at it. Whether it's part of a general attack on the poor is a separate question, but it does fit a pattern of punching downwards.