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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by skeeter2020 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:24PM (#29004202)
Your numbers are way off. The average cost is ~ $5.75 of which $1.41 is tax. That's revenues of about a billion per year. Pretty sure we can find a billion dollars in externalities related to smoking.
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Re:10% of households pay more than 80% of taxes on alcohol a... by JamesBarney on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:36PM (#29004386)
We're both wrong it's 2.42. you didn't include the federal tax, the $5 was wrong.
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