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Originally Posted by Azure
Higher taxes & overall price increases seems to be resulting in less people smoking.
However, it is also leading to more people vaping, which I'm not sure is good or bad? Seems to me we shouldn't be discouraging one behavior while encouraging another, and instead we should focus on overall education to get people to stop smoking.
Anyone remember the Tips from Former Smokers thing that was happening in schools in the early 2000s?
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign...t-results.html
I remember former smokers coming into school and talking to us kids about smoking, and some very gruesome looking pictures & stories being told.
The other thing is that the health care costs for smoking are not going away for a long time, and therefore it is in our best interest to allow smoking trends to continue to drop, but at the same time collect maximum amount of tax revenue to offset the cost. Sounds wrong, but unfortunately this is a must in order to ease the burden on the health care system. |
Isn't this doing exactly that though? I assume the cigarettes being sold to the olds will still be taxed.