Or so says the Unpretentious Diva:
What if government increase hyper-taxes on tobacco, will it help?
Banning or restricting any thing never helps anybody, yet it increases black-marketing, it increases smuggling, and to counter all that, government will need a new force to control smuggling and black-marketing of Tobacco. In addition, black-marketing always increases consumption because it provides the demanded goods at much less price than the governmental prices.
Thus, even if government announces extreme high tobacco taxes, making even the Bidis too much expensive, it will not help anybody.
Yet it will make many people die of hunger and starvation in poverty
I am not entirely convinced by the logic. But I agree in part, it must be a carrot-and-stick approach, not just one of them.
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I think cigarette ban helps. Unlike alcohol cigarette smoke harms people around you.
I know of a lot of people who have reduced their smoking coz of lack of space or laziness
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See, bans never helps. some of the people you know might surely have quit smoking for their own reason, but the number of people turning to unfiltered cigarettes and Bidis is much much higher.
Governmental reports shows that people working in Bidi industries is increasing fast.
Thus not only smokers are getting in danger zone of unfiltered bidis, but the producers and labors are also facing same dangers.
I am not a smoker. I do not like smoking, its my personal taste that I do not let any smoker be my close friend, and for my own taste I have insistently helped many friends who values me to quit smoking.
We can urge. We cannot force. We are not their lords, their gods who do smoke.
Plus if you read my posting, you will get the reason why banning cigarettes increases rates of cancer, it is not me but the Director of Tobacco Institute of India’s remark.
This is real a surprise. Very interesting read.
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