Nice words Shelley
The thoughts behind the tax on the tobacco products is to pay for spiraling cost health care in the US. They hope the tax in effect
makes people quit. They don't want people to smoke. The cost for people to smoke outweighs any taxes they will ever receive from it.
I am all for the taxes we pay if they go to things that are useful, like the health care the overseas countries have. If we had little or no taxes, nothing (or less then now) would get done.