| I typically feel it is tacky to pull educational rank on someone, but in your case, I'll make an exception. You should take a critical thinking course that focuses on the various flaws in logic. You have demonstrated the classic slippery slope argument of "If you let Johnny go to the dance today, then he'll be robbing banks tomorrow." A smoke tax is in no way related to a food tax, which doesn't even exist here in Utah. Unlike cigarettes, we must have food to live, and the government is smart enough to realize that. No politician who wants to stay in office would impose a food tax. In fact, here in Utah, there is discussion of eliminating sales tax on food. Smoking is unhealthy, and it's completely avoidable. It places an unfair burden on others and has absolutely no socially redeeming value. My feeling is that if you insist on acting in a way that is knowingly unhealthy to you and your family, is a socially aberrant behavior, and drives up the insurance costs of others, you certainly should pay a financial price for making that choice. |