Come on, yes you want to remove it I'm sorry, I like ya B-Line, but every former smoker I've ever known is the biggest hypocrite about smoking. Now that "they're reformed" they think the others need punished..and yes.raising the taxes is punishing them (would you have liked taxes raised on you when you smoked? How would YOU have viewed that?). IMO of course. Same as the "we found God" people. Or the recovered drunks.

Like selling all your cars to buy a bike, then saying "you all shouldn't drive cars, and if you do we'll tax them more".

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