Fuck my country!

[Ashendant]

People know smoking fucks up your body, they chose to do it, nobody's damn business what they do with their own bodies.

That's a good argument for why private healthcare is better, the amount you pay is measured by the action you take. People who smoke and over eat SHOULD pay more, they put a bigger strain on the system - People who exercise regularly and eat well should pay less. There are ways to do something similar in a single-payer healthcare system, invoice people separately for the difference for healthcare problems that they have knowingly caused.

Smokes are $12-15 for 20, way too fucking high already. More taxes don't help, you just make smokers more broke. Considering that most smokers are from low/middle income families it's just another way to make life tougher for the lower class, the effect is negligible.

Actually making smokes expensive forces people to quit it, also you have remember that not all smokers have their health destroyed because they smoke(passive smokers)