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How does that punish the general tax-paying public? The burden of taxes falls on both consumer and supplier.

• goblin89 13y ago
  Can that anti-smoking campaign be guaranteed to be financed exclusively by the taxes collected from cigarette purchases?
  • argonaut 13y ago
    Ah. Regarding the mass media campaign, it may be possible that the money spent is recouped in healthcare savings. It's very much up in the air the net economic effect of something like that. You can't guarantee that it's going to have a positive/neutral effect, but neither can you guarantee it's going to have a negative effect on the public, either.
  • bromagosa 13y ago
    Still wouldn't sound good enough to me... if it's so clear cigarrette companies are to blame, they should be the ones paying for the damage.