Both are legal but one sale is designed for tax cheats.
You just haven't been affected so far. If government placed an outrageous tax on one of your "must have" items, you'd probably be looking for a way to cheat too.
I'm furious. They found a way to gouge a minority of citizens in order to get more money to waste on bigger government. They didn't use the money for medical care and education, they just defrauded us and dropped the loot into the general fund.
I wish all smokers could simultaneously quit for just one month. It would shock the hell out of those money-grubbing bastards!
Both are also considered bad habits with harmful consequences of use.
If this is the way to deal with tobacco then why don't we have sky high taxes on porn?
Next; the firearms public safety/health problem.
All must help the thieves steal the money,,otherwise, they are the dreaded "tax cheats".