** ...They taste much better knowing that the STATE is not getting one penny ... **
Tobacco, LIKE it or not, is STILL LEGAL! Time for BIG BROTHER to realize ... if the stuff is so BAD ... BAN IT.
Personally for all that tax revenue, we should be THANKED and Treated PROPERLY ...
An accountant friend of mine (with too much time on his hands) ran some numbers, and told me that without tobacco taxes... FEDERAL tax rates would have to QUADRUPLE and State taxes, “umm, well, my calculator doesn’t go that high”
I’m with you.
If it is so horrible. Just ban it already.
Social engineering and controlling citizens through central planning government actions is anathema to a free country.