Thank You For Smoking - By Ed Morrissey

Smokers around the country expected cigarette prices to rise on April 1st, when the new federal taxes to fund the S-CHIP program start getting assessed.  They got a rude shock this week, when tobacco companies decided to hike prices ahead of time to stop consumers from hoarding in the last week of the month.  It may not be the last time, either, as states around the country look for revenue from so-called “sin taxes”: