The Government should admit defeat and undo its terrible excise mistake. Topher Project Ep 258

The war on tobacco has failed in every conceivable way... violent crime is off the charts, smoking rates are UP, tax revenue is DOWN... this is a lose-lose-lose situation and the government needs to admit that tobacco has won the war on smoking.



Huge taxes on cigarettes made them unaffordable causing the blackmarket to explode. The Government was effectively trying to ban cigarettes and we got chaos. 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, November 28, 2025.]