Madam Speaker, knowing the government's insatiable appetite for taxation, we should have more concern about this than just saying it is a health issue or some other issue. When we look at increasing taxes, particularly on alcohol and tobacco because they are easily exported, does the hon. member not have some concern of a black market creeping in that will be far more costly to regulate than what the government is setting out to do here?
Would it not be better if the government were to put some of these funds into education? Would it not be better to go to the schools and show a cancerous lung and a clean lung? I speak as a smoker. I am sure if we were to show grade 5 or grade 6 students what a cancerous lung looks like compared to a healthy lung it might impact upon them, whereas I never had that chance.
Would it not be better to take someone who is suffering or dying from asthma or cigarette lung disease into the schools to talk to the children? Would that not have a bigger impact than putting taxes on a product? Young people do not understand what taxation is and they are still going to steal a cigarette. Would the hon. member care to comment?