[F.J. Mitchell]

Let the pious and the politicians contemplate the increase in their own taxes that would ensue, if smokers and drinkers should one day decide they are not going to carry everyone else in the country on their backs anymore and quit using their over taxed products. Who would the government choose to screw to fill the hole in revenue left when no one uses the products that have been laden with sin taxes, and they sit on the shelf and grow stale? It would be interesting to behold the panic among politicians and the gnashing of teeth among the pious who would at last be forced to pay their share of taxes.