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I did not read every post since I missed so much but I do think taxing something like Burger King is not the answer. Simply don't eat there and if you do you deserve what you get.I may get a burger there 2 or 3 times a year when I am in a hurry and running late but for the most part I cook my own food. That's right, I actually buy meat and veggies and pasta and so on and cook real non-prepackaged food. The cost of cigarettes I think is more from the lawsuits than taxes but I don't smoke so it doesn't apply to me and so I have not really looked into it. I know at work people who use tobacco pay a substantially higher insurance rate and I feel rightly so as they pose risk of much higher health care costs.I like people not being allowed to smoke in public places, I wish it was not allowed to smoke at the entrances to those places either. I think 100' would be a good buffer. That being said I don't like the gov't telling business owners weather they can have people smoke in their places of business or not.If a business owner wants to allow it they should be able to then the non-smoker has a choice to enter or not.