If you belief that tobacco taxes pay for smokers healthcare then you have no beef, but you seem to have a big chip on your shoulder for smokers.
BTW Everone I have ever known who has or had cancer didnt smoke.
Hows about we all get the same treatment and tax burden?
just the opposite for me, including the fact that now I'm on SS as the widow of a lifelong smoker 0 who died last summer of lung cancer...
What is the zip for the State of Denial?
But anyone who tries to pretend that it is NOT a dangerous substance that kills and sickens tens of thousands of people is worse than a fool - they are the moral equivalent of someone who sells crack or meth on a school playground and argues there is no data showing it’s bad. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
I used to smoke. As with ANY other substance - do whatever the hell you want, just don’t ask me to pay the cost of it. Let the marketplace decide. My ONLY beef with tobacco is that smokers have this self righteous delusion that they should be treated differently than other drug users. Tobacco, weed, coke booze - I don’t care who does what (until they impact someone else’s life) but when cigarette smokers come off like they are morally superior to dope smokers just because THEIR drug of choice has a more effective political lobby then I feel free to ridicule the habit.