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food each and every American consumes daily, the carbon monoxide poisoning of our environment from fossil fuel motor vehicles and processing manufacturing plants, nuclear waste facilities, water contamination and the many psyche drugs being over prescribed in the medical industry that cause more health problems than they ever cure. Oh, and let us not forget the mining industry with black lung, and global warming for skin cancer and other diseases.

Smoke from cigarettes is a drop in the bucket to our environmental pollution compared to the exhaust fumes we produce in our commute time of 1-3 hours per day, every single day of the year. Brown skies and EPA advisories are not caused by cigarette smoke. Sin tax is what is seen when you logically compare the other problems we have as Americans paying taxes on our taxes.

Mass hysteria on a 'stinking, teeth staining, dirty, filthy habit', so say the commercials on national television by those who support the heavy taxes on cigarettes. Another 'witch hunt' is all I see these taxes to be. We as a society are still looking for someone else to blame for our own inadequacies and imperfections that we are too afraid to actually look at where the problem lies; within each and every one of us to take personal responsibility for our own actions.

I would like to propose tax laws that levy those sins of the groups of people who pass these tax laws on cigarettes. Let's see; mass murder tax, child exploitation tax, pedophile tax, human trafficking tax, infidelity tax, high treason tax, war crime tax, domestic violence against women tax, civil rights violation tax for every civil right violated, bigotry tax, hypocrisy tax, illegal use of force tax, illegal search and seizure tax, child abuse and neglect tax, the list goes on and on. When we can tax their sins, then maybe cigarette taxes will be fair. No matter what way we look at it, these hyped up medical costs and claims about cigarettes and the reasons for the taxes levied on smokers is unconstitutional, unfair and another excuse to kill Mobey Dick at the cost of the entire crew and our own liberty.

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