Whether it's your taxes to pay her taxes on cigarettes makes no difference to me. It just as well could be for gas, exercise bikes, wheelchairs, crutches, running shoes, bicycles, whatever. The real point is that the money (tax money) shouldn't be confiscated from one to pay another, period. None of the purposes are legitimate enough to rob someone else for. The government of this country was not originally established for these purposes. The purpose was for protection, fairness, collection of import duty fees, etc. Not to rob you blind because you happen to have had will to work for what you have.
Sure, but she is living on the dole and using our taxes to support her habit!