History has shown that raising taxes on tobacco products (or anything, for that matter–what you want to discourage, you tax) causes people to quit. So, they have based their expected revenues for SCHIP taxes based on more people smoking and paying the taxes than will actually be the case. Therefore, the funding will not be enough to cover the (liberal) politicians have promised. In the world of "Big Government" there is no such thing as shrinking a budget, no matter what the teachers' unions may say, so instead of cutting back and making the program work with less money, they will expand the taxes to provide more funding. When tobacco tax money has dried up, they will be coming for your "sacred cows," non-smokers! Don't expect me to feel sympathy for you when they raise taxes on your bottled water or your Prius.

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."