A tax on the poor.
Tax on and for the addicted. The tobacco users will not stop smoking because they are addicted. They will just short out something else in the life. Government is as addicted to tobacco tax as the smoker is to tobacco. The government funds the growers while taxing it's use. The fields in this area have hundreds of acres planted in tobacco. The Amish are growing it and who is planting it? The Amish tots are sitting on the back of low rigs , bending over and placing the plants in the soil as the mule or horse moves slowly down the row. It is so pathetic to watch the children on TV attacking smoking while very young children are being used to plant it. We live in a world with children planting, government subsidizing, tobacco users bashed, government slobbering over the taxes produced by smoking and lawyers drooling over the lawsuit results on cigarette manufacturers.
I do not smoke at all. I find the missing billions in Washington DC far more disgusting than smoking. Department of Education not audited in 3 years and missing huge amounts of money? There is something very wrong going on in America and it is not smoking. Where is all the missing money from Education, Medicare, Interior, Defense and other areas. Taxing more? Find what they have been losing via fraud, theft and incompetence first.