Higher Cigarette Taxes

As defined in the A Healthy Living blog, In the beginning of April, Massachusetts is once again looking to increase cigarette taxes. Their goal would be to add a $1 tax to every box sold. This would lead to over $150 million revenue for the Massachusetts government.

At the same time, the Boston Globe also published why higher taxes on cigarettes would help the state:

-This would discourage children to smoke (Expensive prices would detour them)
-Lower health risk due to fewer smokers
-Addiction cycles would be broken
-Massachusetts spends over $3.5 billion dollars a year annually taking care of smokers. So, this expenditure would go down and the smokers would in theory be paying for their health care in advance when they buy a pack of cigarettes.