Whoopsie! Looks like the link to the NY Accents piece got duped into this link. Trying to find the correct link…

This may be it. Or if not, close enough, right?

"People should understand: Those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state,” he said.
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In America, smoking taxes are often seen as a way to curb smoking, not just raise money.

Yeah right, sure they are. Allowing an addictive product to be promoted and sold, then financially raping that group “for their own good” is pure hypocrisy.

Of course, all the tax monies raised from these policies is put right back into addiction education, treatment for those who want to quit and so forth? Isn’t it? Oh, statistically less than zero? Super!

Thank you, Dimmer.