Just let the taxpayer funded healthcare system deal with the burden. See how you can go the other way too if you want to be objective :)
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A country with 1M of an everyday smokers and a tax of $1 per pack would get $1M a day in the tobacco tax. There is a $365M oops 365 days in the year.
Just Googled "cost of smokers in UK", and first result I got - total annual economic cost of £46B, for England alone https://ash.org.uk/media-centre/news/press-releases/latest-f...
At least you could had try to find the numbers not from a very opionated source.
But anyway, $20B / 30M smokers give only $666/person. A $2 tax per pack covers it with a proficit.
Not sure what you mean. Here smokers pay much more taxes than non smokers and they require much less health care.