I love when people talk crap about smokers here in NY...

I ask them how they like their kids schools, roads, property taxes and income taxes (trust me taxes are already high).

Because if smoking were gone in NY, school and infrastructure funding would plummet, bunch of layoffs, while taxes would go way up.

Last I heard, NYS profits more from tobacco sales in NY than all of major tobacco. Trust me, they have zero plan (other than tax hikes and slash spending) on how they would make up the difference in the budget. IIRC, they make around $600 million.