smokers tax

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Originally Posted by Sheriff Gonna Getcha

Cigarettes are perfectly analogous to harmful fast food - both are totally unhealthy, no one HAS to consume fast food or cigarettes, but they are redeeming because people like them despite their ill health effects.

I really have to diagree. That "totally unhealthy" fast food is not inherently totally unhealthy. It contains nothing that other healthy foods don't also contain they simply have more of certain things that CAN BE unhealthy in great enough quantities. Fat is not bad for you in proper amounts. I simply cannot associate any real food with cigarettes. There isn't one redeeming quality about them. And "people like them" is not a redeeming quality. By that logic murder has redeeming qualities because some people like to kill other people.