Taxes on tobacco, by the governments, is one way to try to recover the money needed to take care of everyone that is crippling the health care systems with all there smoking related maladies. I’m thankful they finally taxed cigarettes high enough for me to find snuff. Just another perspective…
@hooked: You have that backwards. Cigarette smokers are the ones taking care of everyone else. According to the Public Library of Science Medicine, the average healthcare cost of smokers from age 20 to death was $326,000. For non-smokers it was $417,000. By your reasoning the government should be giving smokers tax breaks while charging egregious taxes on everything that non-smokers consume. I’m glad that the high taxes on cigarettes lead you to snuff. If this bill was to pass, then the high tax on snuff will hopefully lead you to something even safer, like nicotine lozenges and transdermal patches. Meanwhile, the rest of America that doesn’t like the government deciding what’s best for them is screwed. That’s my perspective.
Snuffy has it right. This is not about snuff as we know it. This is about dip. Snuff is the legal word for dip, which IS a huge revenue business. Government officials, lobbyists, and even tobacco industry people don’t even think nasal snuff exists. We are not the target here, though we may well be collateral damage, as we were with the PACT Act definition of snuff.
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