• Case@unilem.org
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    1 year ago

    Don’t forget a lot of the cost of a pack of smokes is often more due to taxation than the cost of the product, even if you include things likes all the overhead for marketing and legal and shit.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s because of aforementioned Pigouvian taxes. The entire point is pricing some people out of purchasing them.