hey are still smoking.Quitting is easier said then done. "People who have smoked about 100 cigarettes in their life time wish they could quite."(Elders 1994) This is the problem; a lot of the smokers can't stop smoking even though they know it is bad for them. "In the United States, four out of five smokers say they want to "kick the habit," each year fewer than one in ten succeed."(Feighery 1992) Quitting is not impossible but comes pretty close to it. "Seventeen million Americans try to quite smoking each year. But more than 15,000,000 individuals are unable to exercise that choice because they cannot break their addiction to cigarettes."(Kessler 1995)The people are finally making an effort to stop or slow down the consumption of cigarettes. "To discourage teenagers and others from starting to smoke the tax has been raised, and at the same time it will help pay for health care."(Aldrich 1995) The tax increase is helping the people but hurting the tobacco companies. If it hurts the Tobacco Company enough, jobs would be lost to compensate for the drain of tobacco consumption. "Many industry studies have reached the same conclusion, estimating that a $1-a-pack increase in cigarette tax would mean a 17 percent decline in cigarette sales and a loss of close to 400,000 jobs, more than 100,000 in the tobacco industry alone."(Robertson 1995) This will greatly effect the economy because a lot of people will be out of work, which means that less money will be put back into circulation, "In 1993, the Clinton Administration proposed a large tax increase on cigarettes to help finance its national health care plan. Such a tax increase would harm the economy by severely damaging the tobacco industry: costing jobs, decreasing income tax revenues, and reducing the consumption of goods and services."(Robertson 1995) It seems like no matter what happens nothing good comes out of it. On one hand we will have our health but we won't have mon...
