do only poor people smoke, or is the tax only charged to poor people on the same purchases? Like, do rich people have a special card that is swiped at the register that eliminates the tax because of their income level?
Call me crazy, (many people have, I'm use to it), but it almost seems to me that it's a tax on smoking. :think:
And I don't really see that as a bad thing. Seems the CDC don't really have a problem with it, either....
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/effects_cig_smoking/Smoking and Death in the United States
The adverse health effects from cigarette smoking account for an estimated 443,000 deaths, or nearly 1 of every 5 deaths, each year in the United States.1,2 More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined.1,3 Until politicians work up the guts to ban the product, I see any attempt at discouraging it's use to be a good thing. Let's face it, if 45,000 people dying every year from lack of health insurance is an outrage, shouldn't almost 10 times that number dying from an over the counter product be a big fucking deal? :shrug:
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