[sgjohnson]

I wouldn’t.

And “sin taxes”, i.e. tobbaco taxes and carbon taxes are a logical fallacy.

Tobacco tax won’t offset the additional healthcare costs for smokers on average, so it ends up just being a penalty for having a bad habit, and carbon tax will simply put a price tag on high carbon emissions.

[SOLAR_FIELDS]

Kind of tangential - the tobacco tax is a fallacy in another way: without taking into account quality of life adjustments, smokers are actually a net benefit for society in healthcare costs [1]. The simple reason is because they die earlier and most healthcare costs are incurred near the tail end of life, so by shortening those final years it becomes much cheaper for society to pay out.

1: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/2/6/e001678

[tmp_anon_22]

How many people die per year of second hand smoke? Smokers impact non-smokers significantly.