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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget a lot of the cost of a pack of smokes is often more due to taxation than the cost of the product, even if you include things likes all the overhead for marketing and legal and shit.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah that's because of aforementioned Pigouvian taxes. The entire point is pricing some people out of purchasing them.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

AKA bankrupting the disadvantaged that have developed a drug dependence like a complete tyrant.

Did you know that tobacco is the third most addictive substance on the planet?