Hidden Brain: How Cigarette Taxes Affect Food Buying (NPR)

NPR ^ | July 25, 2017 | SHANKAR VEDANTAM

[Drango]

I have always opposed excessive taxes on tobacco for the simple reason that the higher costs literally take food from poor kids' mouths.

Nonsense. It's parental behavior taking food from poor kids mouths.

[Theodore R.]

For a smoker, his first expense is tobacco, not anything else.

[IrishBrigade]

But, but, but...it’s not addiction, it’s a habit.

you’re right...

[Godebert]

People are just too damn lazy to roll their own. A pound of tobacco (The Good Stuff) and three cartons of tubes runs about $30, which is about $10 per carton.

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.....

[Drango]

addicts and lazy...bummer.

[Godebert]

I know your type. My brother-in-law’s brother, a doctor and a liberal, used to give me crap about smoking. 15 years ago he went out jogging and never came home. His wife found him face down in a mud puddle, dead as a doornail. Massive heart attack.

[Trillian]

Democrats love giving out free cigarettes during elections.

[Springman]

Bump for later.