Cigarette taxes and the drug war are complete opposite. I'm pretty most people in favor of ending the drug war talk about the tax revenue legalized drugs would bring to the government...
It's a talking point in favor of drug legalization, but the idea that you are going to stop the drug war at the same time as making a killing off drug taxes doesn't make much sense. If there are high taxes on drugs, then the drug war will to some extent continue. The Whiskey Rebellion didn't happen because whiskey was made illegal.
Heck, the American Revolution didn't happen because tea was made illegal either. Incidentally, the Boston Tea Party is really strange, and not just because of the costumes of the party goers. To get Americans used to paying British duties, the tea was both taxed and subsidized, with the subsidies being enough that taxed British tea was cheaper than smuggled untaxed Dutch tea.
