Cigarettes generate tax revenue at a rate of 12.5 cents per butt. And that money goes straight to education. Cigarettes pay for your teachers and your books and for the lunches eaten by poor kids.
Each year about 443,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to cigarette smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.
Death will come in one form or another. From a medical standpoint a smoker is less likely to die of smoking related deaths if they limit their smoking to ten pack years (a pack a day for no more than 10 years). Globally 1 out of 7 people smoke. The average smoker dies in their 60's. If you were willing to take on the taxed contributions for ten pack years, you'd be taking the burdon of additional pack years off those who die from smoking.
but are there not healthier, more progressive ways to produce tax revenue? And the truth of it is, people who smoke don't simply smoke for ten years and then call it quits, just like that. Especially if, like you said, they are smoking a pack every single day. That much smoking would make it impossible not to form an addiction to nicotine.
We pretty much pay taxes on everything taxable, so as far as healthier ways to produce taxes... maybe we can tax nicotine gum (which doesn't cause upper respiratory illness) and I'd be happy to switch, if you and 4 of your friends took on ten pack years to relieve me of the taxes I'm committing to over a lifetime as a smoker. However, increasing my life span increases my tax Burden on healthcare costs in late life care. 60% of our healthcare expenditures are spent on people over the age of 65.
bryan
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goobrocks 3 years ago
Cigarettes generate tax revenue at a rate of 12.5 cents per butt. And that money goes straight to education. Cigarettes pay for your teachers and your books and for the lunches eaten by poor kids.
andyefinmiller 3 years ago
Each year about 443,000 people in the United States die from illnesses related to cigarette smoking. Cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined.
DeerCiti 3 years ago
i think that my grandpa died frm smoking :(
goobrocks 3 years ago
Death will come in one form or another. From a medical standpoint a smoker is less likely to die of smoking related deaths if they limit their smoking to ten pack years (a pack a day for no more than 10 years). Globally 1 out of 7 people smoke. The average smoker dies in their 60's. If you were willing to take on the taxed contributions for ten pack years, you'd be taking the burdon of additional pack years off those who die from smoking.
andyefinmiller 3 years ago
but are there not healthier, more progressive ways to produce tax revenue? And the truth of it is, people who smoke don't simply smoke for ten years and then call it quits, just like that. Especially if, like you said, they are smoking a pack every single day. That much smoking would make it impossible not to form an addiction to nicotine.
DeerCiti 3 years ago
We pretty much pay taxes on everything taxable, so as far as healthier ways to produce taxes... maybe we can tax nicotine gum (which doesn't cause upper respiratory illness) and I'd be happy to switch, if you and 4 of your friends took on ten pack years to relieve me of the taxes I'm committing to over a lifetime as a smoker. However, increasing my life span increases my tax Burden on healthcare costs in late life care. 60% of our healthcare expenditures are spent on people over the age of 65.
andyefinmiller 3 years ago