Why not tax Twinkie eaters instead?

[Clinton]

I've read a lot of opinions about the pending "cigar tax". This columnist is the most astute writer I've yet seen:

And if they don't like it, one reader said, it's their own fault.

"If they (smokers) didn't keep keeling over from lung cancer and emphysema, maybe they'd be a bigger voting bloc in California city councils," she wrote.


True. But when they're gone, who will be left to pick up health-care tax tab? Which sinners will be next?

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