No, what it will do is created a massive black market for smokes, or turn Indian Reservations in the biggest smoke sellers in the US, or both. Didn't you read Bunz own post #2?
Case and point?
Tax on smokes, it simply a tax on the public. A tax on the public will simply hinder economic activity. Obviously if the public is paying more for smokes, they can't spends as much on other things. Result is economic decline.
That said, one of the many reasons I'm against legalization of Marijuana, is because of the social fallout that will undoubtedly follow it.
These are two of literally millions of statements by people married, or divorced from, spouses addicted to Marijuana. What isn't said here, is the children who grow up in a family with an addicted father. Thankfully I don't know anyone who's been through this, but I do know some who married someone addicted to alcohol. The problems are the same.
The point is, we don't need another family destroying drug legalized on the market to cause more social chaos in our already screwed up culture.
