This law professor doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about! Distorting the price of cigarettes is about the worst thing a society can do. By increasing and increasing the price of cigarettes, the authorities are making them too expensive for young people to buy. That sounds good, but it isn’t. By doing this, all you are doing is encouraging young people to try far worse, far more addictive alternatives.
A mother told me recently she had a problem with her young son taking drugs. She said that young people today buy rolling tobacco (which is much cheaper) and lace the ‘cigarettes’ with cannabis, etc., thus turning them into joints. I said it would be better for them to smoke a normal cigarette than that, as was usual when I was young. She told me that young people can no longer afford ‘normal’ cigarettes.
So how much good are we really doing by pricing cigarettes so high that young people take to far worse alternatives? This law professor is talking through his hat. And I write as a non-smoker. Give me a son who smokes cigarettes over a son who takes drugs any day. These do-gooders ain’t doin’ any good! – © Mark
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