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Taxation is a tool but it also creates inequality where rich people are able to smoke and poor people can't. That situation risks making tobacco a signifier of wealth - an aspirational good like an expensive handbag.
good, let them smoke and DIE
If rich kids are able to get lung cancer and poor kids are priced out of it, I don't feel bad for the poor kids.