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Just read where it was overturned.

At least everyone hasn't lost their mind

lulz. Nice try though, I suppose.

Keep trying to tell people how to live their lives, liberal.

A fat tax sounds good to me

At the very least their healthcare expenses should be raised. How ridiculous is it that people who poison their bodies pay the same amount as me?

It is shifting, really faster than I ever expected. In 10 years it will be very very costly to be unhealthy in America and POOF! folks won't smoke, chug sugar drinks, and will walk at night.

Are you that constrained mentally to your current time and place?

Please never come over to the futurist/technology thread.

100 years is a drop of nothing in the span of humanity

You don't really get human nature do you???

I have known all of my life that smoking is bad for you and the same for cocaine...

I have also known hundreds of smokers my age or less and many people who snorted away their money. Could Coke sales be affected by "sin taxes" and limits... possibly, but people will continue to drink it. Same goes for cigs and drugs. People will choose the immediate satisfaction over long-term consequences at an alarmingly high rate.

When the cost to taxpayers when a person eats BREAD their entire life instead of smoking cigarettes can easily exceed $100,000 you might have a point.

You have a constitutional right to smoke cigarettes, maybe, but people who fight against tobacco taxes aren't so fucking yappity about their 'individual rights' and 'government control' when they show up in the emergency room 30 years later, coughing up blood, billing it to Medicare. It's not about 'morality' or 'sin.' When a man falls out of the workforce because he has a heart attack at age 45, it's bad for the entire economy and responsible citizens have to pick up the slack.

It may be your right to put terrible things in your body, but you should have to pay a tax to buy the horrible shit. Not because fat people are icky but because when you end up on disability and can't work because you lost a foot to diabetes, or you spend the last 20 years of your life in and out of the hospital, or orphan your children, your personal choice became society's problem.

Bloomberg's law is stupid because it should have been a tax, not a ban.

How much of a tax are you talking here? A typical 5 or 10 cent tax probably wouldn't would effect sales at all.