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I’m doing an essay for school on the ban of cigarettes. I need some help finding articles discussing other things we could place taxes on in the place of the huge tax on cigarettes. We get so many tax dollars from cigarettes and spend it on nesscary things- where would we get this money from if not from the tax, and what exactly do we spend it on, anyway?
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Any helpful links or opinions?
I could really use links to site that contain information as to where exactly the cigarette tax goes- ex. what does it fund? who does it help?

we could always tax fast food. pretty much every one eats it, and it horrible for your heath in the long run, like smokes. but its socially acceptable to eat at places like McDonald’s, so that would never fly.

what the tax is spent on, is up to individual states. hear in Arizona, most of it goes to early childhood education and welfare programs, plus anti smoking crusades. very little of it goes into medicaid.

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My brand of cigarettes just went up $7.00 a carton and will go up another $6.20 April 1st for the new tax. I am done with cigarettes! Have a doctor’s appointment to get Chantix.

Besides why should I as a smoker pay for someone else’s child health care? I take care of my own already.

If more people quit smoking how will they pay for the enormous cost?

I am going to quit for sure. I think it is absolutely ridiculous. I feel like the government is dictating what people should do because of the very high increase. I am not even quitting because of the price, I am quitting out of pure principle that I do not want the government to touch a penny of mine because of this tax.
I think a lot of smoker’s will finally wise up and plan to quit. There will probably be some people who will not quit but I hope at lease 30 percent decide to quit. I think the government made a big mistake on raising cigarettes this much. Some would say that it will save money in the long run because of health problems but, you could debate that forever. For example, you could say that the government should tax fast food because it could save money in the long run.
The government is going to hurt more business because of this, something which is probably not a good idea now. The government is just going to find something else to tax after they find out this does not work and probably think why they did this to smokers in the first place. So come on anti-smokers, TELL ME HOW WRONG I AM AND GIVE ME A THUMBS DOWN!!!!

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