as for your request for a concrete example
The latest research shows that people with low income (less than $25,000/year) and less education (high school diploma or less) smoke at higher rates than the general population and are less likely to quit successfully. smoking among these groups has not dropped significantly in recent years.so who is going to pick up the corporate tax just imposed by obama on cigarettes? Poor folks not the rich folks
now dont try to weasel, the tax is assessed at the corporate level and collected before a ciggie makes it out the door.
so how many other corporate taxes are passed on to the same folk? Well whatever they buy there will be a nice corporate tax bill in that price somewhere.