Cigarettes

Cigarettes are illegal in Chalakanesia, upon punishment of death. Atlanta smokes cigarettes.

'Cigarettes,' said Nodo. 'You want economic aid from Heaven and Hell, yet you're still opposed to cigarette imports. Every analysis shows that the cigarette industry would be a significant boost to Chalakanesia's gross national product. Instead, you've made smoking cigarettes a capital offence!'
'Mass murder,' said Heineman, 'would also increase the gross national product. Mass murder would give employment to a whole range of coroners, assassins, undertakers and coffin-makers. Obviously the gross national product is not an absolute good. The governance of nations requires the balancing of a basket of different values, different goods, some of which are mutually contradictory.'


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