smoking cigarettes in washington dc Which states have the highest cigarette prices? Cigarette Smoking Rates Down Sharply

And they show up at the sites of mass shootings, though such incidents typically play out before SWAT can get there

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"For a product that's so highly taxed and is so dangerous and incredibly addictive, we're just allowing it to be sold absolutely everywhere, and it's making enforcement a nightmare." A spokesman for the Victorian government would not say whether it was recruiting more tobacco inspectors, but left the door open to giving them extra powers

Chris Richardson was largely correct, except that putting a heavy tax on smoking was done for two reasons: to raise revenue, as he said, but secondly to discourage people from smoking