you're right about that...they would be almost free without the
tax...awareness of how they destroy your health and making smoking
socially unacceptable like banning smoking in public is a better
approach...govt. is addicted to the taxes...smoking is uncool
Matthew Venhaus wrote:
Carol Frilegh wrote in message
...
Tax junk food to fight obesity, top doctor says
Mar. 22, 2006. 05:54 PM
CANADIAN PRESS

"The corollary is that you make unhealthy choices less available
and
one way to do that is to tax them. Certainly it works for
cigarettes."

It doesn't work for cigarettes and that is precisely why they are
taxed.