Sorry, Meatheads, correlation is not causation. Thanks to the Meatheads, California sales tax proceeds are lost, the Web cigarette business is hot, and Mexican vacations pay from themselves, and are even profitable if extra cartons are imported for sale. In fact, net sales tax may be less with the 50 cent increase than without. But the Meatheads don't care about that. Even if it must be diverted from other uses, like schools, the Meatheads still get their 50 cents a pack to fund more Socialist bureaucracies to exert more control over Californians.
Children are just pawns in the control game.