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Originally Posted by PM_Mama00

Every business that closes puts more people out of jobs, and that includes the tobacco business.

Even though people are against smoking, they need to realize that we need these tobacco shops in our economy.

I guess onocologists, other doctors, nurses, hospitals and the funeral industry who deal with the fall out from smoking, then do too.

If the tax gets high enough that people can't afford to smoke, they quit. Then they take that money spent smoking and spend it somewhere else, and shore up another section of the economy.