Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120604:20:24:00
Author, but smokers actually don't externalize more health care costs because they die younger -- >> that's a good insurance theory. you should go to aig with that. >> but if you showed me that smokers by smoking are imposing, do it, but i don't see it. california is broke. they need to get their money from somewhere. they're going to have to raise tax eventually, why not raise taxes on cigarettes. >> that cigarette tax is currently half the national average. why not? it's going to raise $71 million for cancer research. >> there is a big why not here which i think tim is hitting on, which is t...