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Another interesting thing to consider... If smoking raises healthcare costs so much, why isn't the tax money it brings in used solely to pay the healthcare costs of smoking and to support smoke-prevention campaigns?
Also, using tax increases to curb smoking comes across as a rather sick form of profiteering from addiction. Just like drug dealers are able to get ridiculously high prices from their addicted customers, the government is using addiction as an easy way to extort money from a relatively small group of people, then apparently using that money for completely different purposes.
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