We definitely should help people live longer, even if the cause of their illness is their own vices. But, why should the rest of us pay for this? Hence, the gov. wants to keep raising taxes on cigarettes. Let them at least pay partly for their future medical care!
But this money isn’t being set aside for tobacco related illnesses, it is just being collected because as a society we have been conditioned to believe that smokers are evil and we can punish them in order to convince them to stop smoking.