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To Igottago - no, really, you don't want everyone to stop smoking. A single pack of cigarettes is taxed something crazy like $6 a pack. I smoked 4 packs a week, so that's $24 a week and $1248 a year. If there are 500,00 smokers in alberta, that is $6.24 million a year. Do you really want to make up all of those taxes...
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If smoking was 100% eliminated, how much of the loss of tax revenue would be made back in savings to our public healthcare system if it didn't have to treat smoking-related illnesses?