It is also the rich paying health care costs and whatever else you may think sin taxes do reduce consumption.
“Sin taxes do reduce consumption.”
Sure—but at the end of the day it is the poorest people who pay the high taxes.
Go visit a “tobacco store” or a “convenience store” and watch who is paying the insane prices for cigarettes.
Btw most health care costs are in the last six months of life—whether those last six months are when you are fifty and die of lung cancer or you are one hundred and everything fails at once.