Whenever a politician says they willl eartmark the taxes taken from one group and use it for paprticular purpose they are lying. At leat that is the way in the U.S. becuase all taxes colected at every level goes into a general fund and legislators then decide how it gets spent. (See I knew government class was good for something.)

So really there is nothing to stop the taxes on your cigartttes from going to corporate welfare, funding the CIA's drug suggling operations, war in Iraq or a congessional pay raise. Althought you can be certain the money made from taxing cigarettes will never go to pay for healthcare.

Here in Texas the only reason why we got a lottery was because George W. Bush said it would go to pay for education. To this date not a dime had gone to the schools. Well that is unless someone won the lottery and donated lots f money to the local school or built a huge mansion so that the property taxes collected would go up.

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Well sir that seems to be someone else's problem.