• @[email protected]
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    -11 year ago

    Don’t forget a lot of the cost of a pack of smokes is often more due to taxation than the cost of the product, even if you include things likes all the overhead for marketing and legal and shit.

    • @SCB
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      -21 year ago

      Yeah that’s because of aforementioned Pigouvian taxes. The entire point is pricing some people out of purchasing them.

      • @stonedemoman
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        -11 year ago

        AKA bankrupting the disadvantaged that have developed a drug dependence like a complete tyrant.

        Did you know that tobacco is the third most addictive substance on the planet?