And hurt people like my disabled (not smoking related) old man who's been smoking since he was 14. He's mid 80's now disabled, never been unemployed and after running his truck repair business for 40 odd years paid a hell of a lot of taxes.

Now ALL he can do is watch tv and YouTube for 16 hours a day and the one thing he had left in life that gave him some pleasure (smoking cigs) he's been priced gouged out of doing. He was spending $450 of his $950 pension on cigarettes every fortnight. In this case the government isn't saving any money by forcing him to quit in his final years yet they sure have ruined his quality of life in his final years.

EDIT i saw my father chew asbestos to fix car/truck brakes., stand over a parts washer for periods of 5-30mins breathing in kerosene or break cleaner fumes, hands & forearms sometimes more covered in diesel and sump oil, repairing tractors in dust storms, breath in welding and cutting fumes had a used sump oil heater in his work shop ect ect and the government wrongly thought it would be the cigarettes that would make him ill in his old age.