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Old 07-19-2007, 02:17 PM   #3 (permalink)
ratbastid
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Originally Posted by willravel
Tax cigarettes that way, not cigars. When smoked like an adult (not in the lungs like someone who doesn't know how to smoke a cigar), they only cause mouth cancer, and the occurrences are SUBSTANTIALLY less frequent.
To say nothing of how vastly many more cigarettes are smoked than cigars...

Compared to the public health scourge cigarette smoking is, cigars are nothing. I agree with the OP: they should either be exempted from this tax, or taxed at a more reasonable rate.
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