Thursday, February 05, 2004

Yeah, But It’s An Addiction

Jacob Sullum, at Reason’s Hit & Run, neatly sums up C. Everett Koop’s, Julius Richmond’s, Jesse Steinfeld’s and David Satcher’s call for a $2 dollar increase in cigarette taxes as a treatment method to induce people “addicted” to smoking to quit.

In other words, people who can’t break tobacco’s tenacious hold suddenly find that they can when the price of cigarettes goes up. Apparently, the free choice that is lost when you start smoking can be restored through taxation. Only the fleeced are truly free.

Time for a Fuente Cubanito and a cup of joe.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/05 at 07:39 AM
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