May 14, 2008

Perspective

From cigarette smoke to smoking barrels
How sin taxes turn cigarettes from a bad habit into murder
By Douglas Schmidt

Whether by lung cancer or emphysema or heart disease, cigarettes kill thousands of people each year. A new congressional report adds one more cause of death to the list: terrorism. High “sin” taxes have created a profitable black market in cigarettes, and some of those profits are being funneled to terrorist groups. .. more