sin tax

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'sin' tax

A popular term for any tax levied on 'pleasure poisons'–eg, alcohol, tobacco. See Alcohol, Smoking.
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Moreover, reliance on such "vice taxes'' is not an effective long-term strategy, since the state's ultimate goal should be to dissuade everyone from smoking, a result that would, of course, mean the disappearance of all tobacco tax revenues.
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