Very good points all. The solution, I think, is not so much to tax cigarettes more heavily but to force tobacco companies to own up to the fact that what they are peddling is, in fact, a drug.
Except in order to do so you need to bring in the government again! D'oh!
What is the true small-government solution? Is it no taxes, no FDA, and assuming that market forces will ensure that tobacco only poisons as many people as are necessary to achieve an economic equilibrium?
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Date: 2006-02-10 10:20 pm (UTC)Except in order to do so you need to bring in the government again! D'oh!
What is the true small-government solution? Is it no taxes, no FDA, and assuming that market forces will ensure that tobacco only poisons as many people as are necessary to achieve an economic equilibrium?