Well, you figure: if 25-30% of the people in the state smoke, why oh why is it fair to put the budget burden on the backs of the smokers? It's not fair! All the people in each state need to help carry the load. Not just one small group of people who choose to smoke a legal product.
Exactly - and when you figure a lot more people drink alcohol than smoke tobacco and then look at the discrepency between the 2 - it's even worse - in Delaware alone it is nearly 5 tto 1 (tobacco revenue 50 million; alcohol taxes 11 million)
And of course many smokers are also drinkers so are hit even more.