Paul K. Dickman wrote:


Your numbers are out of date. Federal taxes are now $10.10 per carton. State
and local add to that. Around here the taxes are about $47 per carton not
including sales tax.
The median tax (Fed + State not including local) is $23.49 per carton.

I don't know what the current numbers are, but Hills study from the 50's
showed an increased mortality rate for lung cancer and cardiovascular
disease among cigarette smoking doctors at 3.42 per 1000 person years. So
the 20% may be a reasonable number.

So, a thousand people smoke for 20 years. Collectively they pay $343 million
dollars into the fund. 200 get sick that leaves them 1.7 million each for
treatment.

Paul K. Dickman





Which they will never see a penny of...



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