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why are cigarettes legal?
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The insane amount of taxes that comes from their sales
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This is clearly it. I wrote a large law review paper on the new Washington State ban and determined that Washington would go bankrupt in short order without smokers. I believe most states are the same.
My personal solution:
I get the nicotine lift, that tobacco flavor and I will just look like a pig when my nose rots off instead of dying!