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You guys are awesome and correct 99.999% of the time however, the amount of money paid to the tax man by smokers is already a lot, in fact it truly represents "taxation without representation". It may not be cool any longer but we pay extra to do it and we cannot do it anywhere. Drinkers can drink in many places and they do pay a "tax" to do so, why don't we raise their taxes? They cause at least as much physical damage to their bodies and they also cause an extraordinarily enormous amount of "collateral", visible and immediate damage and danger to those around them via accidents, murder etc. And whether popular or not, the tobacco industry employs a large population, so??????