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Politics : IMPEACH GRAY DAVIS!
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To: Sarkie who wrote (185)1/12/2003 4:47:17 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) of 1641
 
Smoking drops as price increases. That is a public health benefit.

(Of course, cigarette smuggling increases as price increases.)

Smoking causes many diseases, not just lung cancer. Lung cancer is not even the highest risk disease linked to smoking; heart attack is #1. More than a hundred diseases have been statistically linked to smoking. And, more significantly, some have been linked through causal mechanisms (meaning the mechanism by which smoking causes the disease is known).

Smokers need more health care. Part of that health care comes at public expense. So tax 'em to pay for their own health care.

Except, of course, cigarette taxes do not end up in a trust fund dedicated to treating diseases caused by smoking; they end up in the general fund and are used for whatever politicians need or need to get re-elected.

The cigarette tax impresses me largely as "They're an unpopular group. We can get away with taxing the bejeesus out of them. Let's do it."
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