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The government has been intentionally making tobacco expensive for a generation or more. They regulated all the supplies to grow tobacco, making it all but imp
by lettergram 3y ago
The government has been intentionally making tobacco expensive for a generation or more.
They regulated all the supplies to grow tobacco, making it all but impossible to profitably grow in the US. Then they added a bunch of tariffs on both supply and tobacco. Then they tax the hell out of the final product.
Cigarettes are super cheap without government interference
- noduerme 3y agoThe tariffs on French and Spanish imports really sucked. The day Gauloises and Gitanes disappeared from the US was dark. I would pay $50 a pouch for that stuff if I could obtain it anywhere. I never come back from Europe without the maximum I'm allowed to bring in.
- hanniabu 3y agoIf only they did that for sugar
- Reason077 3y agoThe US does have fairly steep tariffs on imported sugar. And subsidises domestic corn production. Hence why high-fructose corn syrup is found in nearly everything!