TomGunsmoke wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
The tobacco companies are, themselves, targeting for destruction "the lowest income, less formally educated, harder than any other demographic."
That's a horrible business plan. Destroy the clientele you plan on utilizing to sustain the business model. Knowingly "targeting" them defies any sort of logic... interesting assertion though.
When you consider all of the information, that has been available for decades, on the detriments of using tobacco, people who arrive at the decision that "appearing 'cool' more than compensates for any drawbacks" would generally be people of lower intelligence. People of lower intelligence are also more prevalent among the lowest income and least educated demographic.
A tax on cigarettes ends up being, like the lottery, a tax on stupidity.
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