Smokers - Is the recent purposed tax on tobacco is blatant discrimination?

You are correct.

Once they abolish smoking, there will really be a shortfall in taxes. Then the government will have to greatly increase everyone taxes. And then, everyone will ***** about the increase, but it is their own fault.

The part I find blatant discrimination is the "we don't hire smokers". Sorry, tobacco is legal! AND what I do on MY TIME is nobodies business.

You don't happen to live in CA do you? I voted NO on it, but not just because I smoke. There is no transparency in the pro-vote. Where exactly does the future money go? The future money wouldn't go toward research and cures, only administrative costs. Like paying secretaries and renting offices. NO. When they this proposed 'sin tax' will actually go towards something beneficial like finding a cure, support for smokers who want to quit, that kind of thing, then I'll vote YES and pony up the extra money. But first I want them to be truthful and say *where the money is going* not just that smoking is horrible, we all know that.

You should pay the true cost of what you do. The cigarette taxes and increased health insurance premiums don't even begin to cover the true cost of smoking-related illness, but the tobacco industry is very powerful, so you get the advantage of a compromise that puts part of the cost of your choice on the rest of us.

Don't care in the least. Smokers for years relished in pupping away and getting that crap on the rest of us. Outlaw the crap! We can easily make up the taxes on other things like our beer, wine, and spirits. Sin is in your mind, its means nothing. Smokers need to pay their own medical bills not the public. It is because they don't that we have these needed taxes.

You are exactly right. Research has also shown that increasing taxes doesn't necessarily curb smoking anyway. All it really does is put more monetary stress on poorer families for whom smoking is one of the only stress relievers in their lives.

Yes, we are being discriminated against. More and more is being taken away from us. First taxes and soon the quality of the product. Its bad enough they have FSC in them now.