The dangers of the cigaret doesn't limit itself to nefast effects on your health. Like all consomation products, the price of the article doesn't meet at all with the social price of the article.
First of all, who makes profit over the cigaret market? The cigaret market ressemble a lot a monopoly. There's few manufacturers who has the good sense to get a fixed price. There's also all kinds of smokes: less tobacco, more products favorising the dependancy of the smoke. If not, why is the odour of the cigaret that different from a cigar?
The political move that's applied when buying cigarets is that the buyer work so munch for smokes company's that he agrees with it conscientiously or not. The society is then mobilised by the industry, but is the industry working for the society?
Stopping smoking is not only better for health but the person itself, for the social health. The funds could be use in domain giving service. The governement should nationalize this industry to make cigarets that free you from the dependance to favorise the stopping of smoking cigarets.