Making people pay higher taxes for their cigarettes doesn’t dictate any behavior, it just tries to sway it. On another note, I question the whole assumption that smoking adds to the country’s financial problems because of higher medical costs for smokers. A real analysis would have looked at expected lifespans and the medical costs of the people who lived 20 more years because they didn’t smoke. Cold way to look at it, yes. But math is supposed to be cold.