Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
Rather, I think its just feel-good-measures gone horribly, horribly wrong. The cigarette companies don't suffer for this, because we're going to buy our damned smokes anyway. It just hurts people who smoke. Aren't all the freaking public smoking laws enough? Aargh. Gah.
As an asthmatic who struggles to breath if I so much as walk past someone smoking, no they aren't enough.
Excessive cigarette and alcohol taxes are just as dumb--they harm the industry and hurt the consumers who are going to buy the stuff anyway just so that self-righteous types can feel better about themselves.
The industry might care, but you're probably still going to buy the products that get price-jacked. The only person that gets hurt by measures like these are the consumers.
Can you please reconcile these two statements?