Originally posted by Daff
"It needs to be high enough to pay the cost of keeping your stinky butts alive that last two weeks when you die of a self inflicted wound(smoking)."
Here in the UK, we're paying about $7 for a pack of cigarettes..and the tax income from that is about 3 times the amount spent on treating *all* cancer related patients(including research).
Basicly, the goverment can't afford for people to quit smoking..
Daff
I always get a chuckle out of the folks who talk about taxing cigarettes out of existence.
Raise taxes on smokes, more folks stop smoking, gov't income drops.
Raise taxes on smokes, more folks stop smoking, gov't income drops.
etc etc ad nauseum until noone (expcept the filthy rich) smokes.
Seems like that's what's happening in this neck of the woods, they've hiked the tobacco tax several times since I moved up here.
But what happens when they finally tax cigarettes so much that everyone quits smoking? Gov't gonna lose a fair chunk of change.