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One Brow said:
You can tax the product sufficiently to pay for the incurred costs.
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Up to a point. When things get taxed too much the financial reward of creating a black market tends to be more than the risk of creating a black market (ie jail) to undercut the taxes.

Interstate black markets exist for tobacco now in states that have taxed the hell out of it, like New York. Granted they are nowhere near the scope of black markets where the product is completely illegal, but they do exist for legal products when the tax burden is too much.
 
LogGrad98 said:
Any thoughts on this subject? What about the costs of smoking imposed on everyone who chooses not to smoke?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapo...on-smokers-to-subsidize-your-health-coverage/

This isn't the only cost, and it isn't as temporary as this article makes it sound. We all pay the price when someone is treated for a smoking-related disease and doesn't have insurance, for example. Not to mention potential environmental costs.
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Like the $3 bucks a pack I pay in taxes, putting your kids through school. Get off it. Smokers are dead precisely when Americans are the most expensive to medicare, medicaid, and social security. How about we tax cheeseburgers @ $4 a pop. You want to know what kills more people than cancer, heart disease. So unless you have good cholesterol and get yer fat *** off the couch and go to the gym 3 times a week, stfu.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/07/cutting-smoking-rates-will-save-lives-it-wont-save-money/
https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/snuff-facts
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html?_r=0
 
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Enes CanTear You Apart said:
Some kind of balance is necessary I think. Yes we should not ban tobacco for instance, but we also should not allow the people make fortune from killing people slowly.

https://www.worldlungfoundation.org/ht/display/ReleaseDetails/i/20439/pid/6858
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Gameface said:
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people acting like they're dying because they got a whiff of cigarette smoke. I'm talking about holier than thou pricks who act like cigarette smoke smell ruins their day.
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My friend does this. My friend was I think 13 when his dad died because he smoked. Any kind of cigarette smoke ruins his day. Do you consider him a holier than thou prick?
 
Darkwing Duck said:
My friend does this. My friend was I think 13 when his dad died because he smoked. Any kind of cigarette smoke ruins his day. Do you consider him a holier than thou prick?
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Yes.

Please let him know on my behalf.
 
Gameface said:
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about people acting like they're dying because they got a whiff of cigarette smoke. I'm talking about holier than thou pricks who act like cigarette smoke smell ruins their day.
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Call me a prick too then. I hate it with my whole heart and yes it ruins my day too. I have asthma and a weak stomach and there is smoke everywhere here. Not even smoke itself but even the smell on people disturbs me as hell. There maybe some psychological effects too because of my past of smoking things. But yeah I'm totally a prick in this manner.
 
heyhey said:
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I've no answer to this, it's a nice respond. But at least they are food and not directly addictive. What's a cigarette? If it was consumed as much as fast food lets say in America, wouldn't it kill more than fast food does?

Nevertheless, the rich guys behind all of it doesn't care any of this, so yeah that's still a nice respond.
 
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