Everyone in my family, mother, father, siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, all of them smoked. I grew up around the constant smell of tobacco, and the constant sound of coughing. And it always disgusted me. Addiction, in all its forms, is a terrible thing. Thankfully, times have changed, and cigarettes are no longer fashionable. Between state and federal taxes, the government can collect more revenue from a pack of cigarettes than the tobacco companies, netting more than $10 billion in tax revenue per year. But I've been disappointed to see states, which have seen tobacco tax revenues fall, legalize cannabis in an effort to recoup some of the loss. Cannabis taxes are now netting government some $5 billion per year. It's bad enough when corporations profit from vice and addiction without the state getting a cut.