Yes

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  by Diane Quinn

  Created on: July 05, 2007   Last Updated: July 24, 2009

  It occurs to me that smokers should view cigarette taxes as a "tough love" approach from our government.

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  by Raven Lebeau

  Created on: January 14, 2008   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  No one needs cigarettes, nor can anyone make a convincing case that cigarettes have in any way improved

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  by Bill Whitney

  Created on: November 01, 2007   Last Updated: September 27, 2009

  After going through three surgeries in the last two years to have a tumor removed from my bladder,I

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  by V. Kumar

  Created on: June 15, 2007   Last Updated: September 12, 2008

  Taxes can influence human behavior. If smoking is a behavior that we wish to influence, then taxes are

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  by Ian Loft

  Created on: April 08, 2008

  The cost of cigarettes is a great deal more than what a smoker pays at the counter. There are at least

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  by Ryan Gray

  Created on: March 01, 2008   Last Updated: November 08, 2009

  To answer this question, it is necessary to examine the concept of fairness. According to Dictionary.com,

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  by Claudia Bushee

  Created on: April 28, 2008

  YES, taxing cigarettes can generate a lot of dough for the coffers. Cigarettes start off as a luxury.

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  by Luke Bawden

  Created on: January 28, 2009   Last Updated: April 23, 2011

  So what is it about government regulation that makes it fair? Firstly, if the revenue gained from the

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  by Marisa Wright

  Created on: August 09, 2007   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Cigarette smokers would say cigarettes are essential - they are addicted, so they can't manage without

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  by Eriam Nite

  Created on: December 09, 2007   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Eleven score and fourteen years ago, a mob of angry American colonists dumped 90,000 pounds of tea into

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  by James Smith

  Created on: June 18, 2007   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Are high taxes on Cigarettes Fair?

  Smoking currently is a massive health-care problem which dramatically

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  by Paul Schingle

  Created on: February 01, 2009

  My reasoning on this one is a bit different than many of the others who support a higher cigarette tax.

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  by Freddy

  Created on: June 21, 2007   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Asking this question is just like asking, Is saving life fair? Yes/No.
  I don't mean to be rude to people

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  by Cristy Hebert

  Created on: July 24, 2007   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Hell yes!

  I was a smoker once for many years, I have now stopped for six years, and even when I was a

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  by Ahmad Hashmi

  Created on: June 22, 2007   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Taxation is a tool used by the Governments not only to earn revenue but also to control the national

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  by Gary Betts

  Created on: April 10, 2008   Last Updated: July 18, 2011

  Do I think high taxes on cigarettes are fair? No, they should be even higher. These taxes do not even

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  by R Marie Taylor

  Created on: January 14, 2008   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Yes, I think high taxes on cigarettes are fair.

  Smoking is a habit that causes serious health problems

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  by Ted Sherman

  Created on: May 30, 2007   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Doggone right they're fair. On second thought, the taxes should be higher. If you're killing yourself

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  by Marco Angioni II

  Created on: March 29, 2008   Last Updated: April 25, 2012

  It is imperative that this subject not be looked at in a vacuum. Many unhealthy habits and practices

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  by Matthew J. Geiger

  Created on: March 03, 2008   Last Updated: April 08, 2008

  Unfortunately, tobacco use is well ingrained into the American culture as the unhealthy habit set off