Let’s have a reality check here.
Since the cigarette tax has gone through the roof, cigarette sales in New York have dropped like crazy.
Cigarette smoking hasn’t budged one bit.
All this did was drive people into the black market. That’s what happens when the government tries to ban a ‘bad’ thing.
Did we all forget the lessons of prohibition?
“Cigarette smoking hasn’t budged one bit.”
That is not at all accurate.
Smoking rates in the United States have declined.