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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Unless I’m mistaken but correlation isn’t causation. Meaning that an increase in tax revenue from cigarettes around the time some new subs were ordered doesn’t mean that one is paying for the other.

Is it unreasonable to make the assumption that the extra tax revenue in fact goes into public health to combat the effects of smoking on an aging population?

smoking for those abive 15 has dropped from 24% in 1991 to around 11% in 2019

although i will concede that this tax disproportionately impacts lower income people

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