It’s amazing who people are quick to promote taxes on lifestyles they don’t follow, as it’s more money they can get and make others feel that they are really looking out for their fellow man.
My last cigarette was somewhere around 1964 and this tax doesn’t affect me either. But do I feel we need to punish smokers even more? Seems like people are spending millions on products to quit smoking now and now they won’t have money to help them with that. And those products are taxed also. Sure, it might financially help somebody to quit smoking.
But as I understand there are tons of government financed programs to help with drug addiction. Is there any doubt in anybody’s mind that smoking isn’t already bad for the human body? With all the TV ads about how bad smoking really is, doesn’t the money spent on such ads seem a little misdirected? I mean, who is left in America that doesn’t know the harm smoking does already?
So the government is funding drug addiction programs to aid addictions from illegal substances? Yet it doesn’t seem to have the funded programs to help from addictions to a government controlled and taxed industry. Sorry, but it doesn’t make sense.
John Everest
Farmington
