yes, I'm more than happy to pay my fair share of tax too, Scoto, but when it reaches the level of severe greed and creates a new avenue for criminal syndicates, I draw the line. It also puts unnecessary stress on smokers with a low-income; so much so that it could lead them into criminal activities to feed the deficit. It also goes without saying that for we baby boomers the government condoned and fostered tobacco use for much of our youth and were directly complicit in getting us addicted. And now they want to financially punish smokers for something they were responsible for perpetrating in the first place. It's bad enough that they have made of us social pariahs without making us pay for the dishonor. In the meantime, if I was a drinker addicted, I could buy a bottle of booze for $10, get blind drunk, cause a public nuisance, kill someone or myself in a car and give the wife some grief. So, as you intimated, the entire shebang is out of wack.
