Isn't tripling California's tobacco tax a bit too much?

Nobody thinks that smoking is good for anyone but nobody really wants to help smokers quit. Instead society has been brainwashed into thinking that smoking "is just a bad habit". If smokers REALLY wanted to quit, they would, after all smoking is their CHOICE. 


But smoking is not a choice that most smokers would make. They do want to quit. Each year about half of all smokers try to quit and yet