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As Raimundo observed, We were so successful, the success blinded us to the downsides of sticking on an issue too long

Cigarette Taxes and Smoking In this study from the Cato Institute, Kevin Callison and Robert Kaestner suggest future cigarette-tax increases will offer relatively few public health benefits, and they say the justification given for future taxes should be based on the public finance aspects of cigarette taxes, such as the regressiveness, volatility, or the rate of revenue growth associated with those taxes

As for the morality of self-slavery

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It is most definitely a keeper for me