Cigarette taxes work once they get high enough. See New Zealand and Australia, for the very very high price of cigarettes (currently $25-30 a pack). It is absol

Cigarette taxes work once they get high enough. See New Zealand and Australia, for the very very high price of cigarettes (currently $25-30 a pack). It is absolutely having a positive effect on the rate of smokers quitting (it probably helps that the resulting tax is substantially invested in the health sector for quitters to get support). "The weight of evidence is that the excise tax increases continue to be the single most effective tool for reducing tobacco consumption and prevalence" https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/evaluation-tobacco-excise-increases-final-27-nov2018.pdf https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/eval...