[Sender]

The primary logic for this was because poor people smoke more than more affluent people, and so would be harmed unfairly by making poor people pay a smoking surcharge.

Of course, the progressive solution is to spread the cost of poor peoples' poor health choices to more affluent people who made wise health choices.

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I think the better solution is simply to mandate that tobacco in a cigarette can only be raw tobacco....no preservatives or chemicals added. Once you do that....quitting becomes fairly easily.