It's a cash grab, make no mistake about it. They can justify it all they want, but they're fooling you. Tobacco companies already pay states a bunch of money f

It's a cash grab, make no mistake about it. They can justify it all they want, but they're fooling you. Tobacco companies already pay states a bunch of money from their 1998 settlement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre... It's over $200 billion and growing. They're more than compensated. Cigarettes and tobacco products are already heavily taxed for the user. Both the federal government and the state government makes a lot of money off people's addiction, and it's an addiction they can't break (obviously). https://igentax.com/cigarette-tax-state/ https://igentax.com/cigarette-tax-state/ Time to leave smokers alone. Many if not most of them got hooked as kids and as a society we just keep punishing them for their "moral failure."