"Bob Ackley -> Ross Cassell"  wrote in
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 RC>> I think states that tax the shit out of tobacco to offset health
 BA>   costs RC> are fiscally stupid, if the tax forces people to quit or
 BA>   get their RC> tobacco elsewhere, then what they budgetted for the
 BA>   health programs RC> suffer.

 BA> Actually when consumption of tobacco products falls, the revenue
 BA> generated from those sales also falls.  I doubt that the amount spent
 BA> on those health programs will fall, the shortfall will be made up from
 BA> general tax revenue.

It doesn't bother me a bit, the tobacco tax.

(I never took up smoking.) 

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