Government and vices

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Yes the tax revenue thing is pretty grim when you think about it. Already we're seeing budgets increasingly reliant on tobacco taxes, which perversely means that the government had less incentive to reduce tobacco consumption even when they have it as an ostensible goal.

The thing is it's important not misrepresent the pro 'regulate the vices" crowd (even if you disagree with them - I oppose the Nordic model, drug prohibition etc) because you run the risk of being disingenuous. For the most part, most people who want to ban such things are believers of individual rights and don't want to ruin people's fun for the sheer pleasure of it, they just interpret the word "without harming others" in a broader sense.