Instead of taxing already high-priced gasoline, why not raise the tax on tobacco? If users can't quit or cut back, they can pay the price. The state can use the tax money for roads, and there will be fewer cigarette butts to clean up. Fire departments will also have to put out fewer fires.

John Lewis Harrison

Annabella

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