The Real Cost of the Cigarette Tax

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 9, 2014

David Harsanyi, senior editor of The Federalist, argues that Eric Garner’s arrest—and death—illustrate the problematic symptoms of New York’s high cigarette tax and how the tax does more to misdirect policing than deter smokers.

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