All the taxes for cigarettes goes to states to help curb smoking and to help defray costs associated with cigarette smoking. What will happen to those needed tax dollars when people quit enmass. Not to mention the fact that how many thousands of people will be out of work and the government will lose big tobacco corporations from the tax rolls.

Your answer is in your question. Yeah, the revenue will decline….just as you say. I do wonder if the politicians have thought of the consequences? Worth the result in any case. Good question.

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I’m not pregnant and smoking and evil, just curious.
Thanks.
Not what I asked.

Good question – most people these days don’t allow their babies to experiment with smoking to find out if they have a predisposition to it or not. In the old days, though, some babies did experiment with it: http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=J30RMM%2Fgx6SJb%2FAMgGXGAw%3D%3D

All kidding aside, exposure to nicotine gives you a tolerance to it, even years later. So, kids who were exposed to nicotine in the womb probably have a slightly easier time getting used to the nicotine when they try smoking. But tolerance to the drug varies widely among people, so it would be hard to tell if it were from prenatal exposure.

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