Increasing Tobacco Tax

Prime minister Yukio Hatoyama said Friday that there are possible tax increase of tobacco.
He says that t should be possible to raise the tax in light of its impact on the environment and public health.
It seems like he wants to adopt the environmental tax, but cautious because the econmy is not getting much better at this point.
He knows that it should be difficult unless the government gets the public support for a new tax
desighed to protect the environment.
He also said that his government will abolish gasoline and other taxes related to roads from the fiscal year starting next April.

I agree with the increasing tobacco tax. There are many smokers don't care about other people and smoke anywhere they like. It is distracting others. The prime minister should make a law that forces smokers to follow the rule and manner when they smoke.