It's over $200 billion and growing. They're more than compensated.
Cigarettes and tobacco products are already heavily taxed for the user. Both the federal government and the state government makes a lot of money off people's addiction, and it's an addiction they can't break (obviously).
Tobacco companies already pay states a bunch of money from their 1998 settlement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
It's over $200 billion and growing. They're more than compensated.
Cigarettes and tobacco products are already heavily taxed for the user. Both the federal government and the state government makes a lot of money off people's addiction, and it's an addiction they can't break (obviously).
https://igentax.com/cigarette-tax-state/
Time to leave smokers alone. Many if not most of them got hooked as kids and as a society we just keep punishing them for their "moral failure."