More on Smokes and Guns: And amen to that. Worrying about things like that should be taxed as a luxury good. Only in a rich, safe, healthy, clean country like America do we fret about these things. There are places where the the only worry about guns is about getting them, since the yokel in power outlawed them so he could do things like name calendar months after their himself. The closest you get to worrying about cigarettes is whether you'll get one when the junta sticks you against a wall and shoots you (with one of those rare guns) for something akin to ... blogging.