Cigarettes don’t kill people, people do. That would be the tobacco lobby lying to the world. We’d recognize the claim at once as transparent nonsense. So we tax tobacco, using the proceeds to pay for, among other things, health care for those destroying themselves by indulging their right to smoke.
Why not use the same public policy tools to attempt to control gun violence?
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