Harry Speech: Cigarette Tax

[King]

If you are a real smoker, you wouldn't stop because of an extra 50¢ a pack.  I say if they want to smoke, let them smoke and let them smoke for cheap.  I do support city ordinances banning smoking in restaurants and bars.

Oh and cigarettes are already taxed by the regions through state tax laws (except in the Pacific who abolished state tax laws and made a regional tax code).

[King]

Harry, I recommend that if you do try to get a public smoking ban going to work with the Governors to pass this law.  A federal ban means the FBI enforces it and nothing says police state like getting arrested by the FBI for lighting up at Starbucks.