Isn’t PA raising cigarette taxes to support the Teacher’s union? Governments make a lot of money off of smokers and gamblers, mostly transferred from the poor and dumb to the richer bureaucrats and public employee unions.
And smokers save the govt. money by often dying before they get Alzheimers and more costly diseases, and before they receive a lot from Social Security and Medicare. Thank a smoker that your taxes aren’t even higher.
No idea but I know smokers do not benefit from the tax.