Tax on cigarettes are not exactly new. In fact excise taxes were the main revenue source for cited by the constitution and tobbaco played a big part.
We either have laws we follow or we have anarchy.12
Apparently you irrationally think there are no bogus laws.
How is it that people increasingly prospered as did society without last years new laws or new laws created decades ago? How is it that anarchy didn't ensue over the last hundred hears -- save for prohibition? How is it that we don't have anarchy right now without next year's new laws or new laws yet to be created five ten or fifteen years in the future?
In fact, people and society would prosper much more without the massive number of laws the parasitical elites that have encumbered people and business with.
They reap unearned power and usurped paychecks at the cost of individual prosperity and increased prosperity for society in general. They in fact do the opposite of what they proclaim.
The only valid function and purpose of government is to protect individual life and property rights and ensure private contracts are honored.
Au contarie, from its birth until the late 1850s the bulk of revenue for the Federal government came from tariffs on imported goods; and tobacco was exported, not imported.
The second biggest generator of revenue -- though far, far behind the money raised from tariffs -- was a tax on the sale of Federal land.
Now this is not saying there was no tax on tobacco but it was no more onerous than the tax on rum and salt.
Who needs 'em? These taxes just fund stupid entitlement and social programs anyway.
Get rid of the unjconstitutional entitlements and safety nets and let ebveryone sink or swim on their own...period.
The only reason we need taxes is to keep the defense and military strong and fill potholes. Otherwise, let the government and the bloodsuckers who leech off of it starve.