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Originally Posted by Niamh.
No because if you smoke you are addicted to smoking(besides the very rare few who only smoke socially with a drink and they usually bum cigarettes from smokers  ) but most people who drink aren't addicts so might only have a drink once a week or less so the price wouldn't be as big an issue as buying cigarettes |
Yeah I think this is the big difference with smoking, it's the only thing that's legal where you'd only do it if you were physically addicted to it. I know you get 'social smokers' and 'smoke when I drink' people but they probably only buy like 0.1% of the cigarettes sold
I used to smoke lightly as in a pack a week and would defend it from increasing regulation and tax but really there's such little benefit to smoking, if you can gradually wean the population off it little by little then that's probably a good thing