[TheForceOfOne]

Why isn't unlawful for state and federal agencies to over tax legal products based purely on social preference. This is a bad precedence, it allows authority to dictate which legal products we chose. Alcohol, fatty foods, what car you buy, this is tyranny and it goes against freedom of choice in a free society. The way cigarettes are taxed you would believe it was a valuable commodity like a nice home, but quite the contrary, they believe it has no value.

[Gabz]

but quite the contrary, they believe it has no value.

Au contraire.......it is of great value to our esteemed lawmakers........you see, tobacco users are only 25% of the population, a minority, thus an easy target for ridicule and outrageous taxes. The majority are all in favor of taxing someone else, so come re-election time they can happily proclaim they didn't raise taxes and the majority will believe how fiscally responsible they are, forgetting that a small minority was taxed to balance the budget.