SCHIP debate

I am watching the debate on the House Floor on C-SPAN and I still can't believe this argument continues. Rep. Frank Pallone (D) New Jersey, mentioned that the bill is payed for by an increase in Tobacco tax. Now I don't smoke, but it only makes sense that if you keep taxing anything eventually people will quit using that item. Now juxtapose that with the every increasing smoke free areas. In California you can't even smoke in an apartment building, and soon you won't be able to smoke in parks either. If you continue to treat smokers like 2nd Class citizens, then you will lose the money you want to fund SCHIP. Isn't this common sense? Continuing to watch this debate is proving to be the highlight of my day so far. So much mud slinging. There are only a few remarks away from being the English Parliament during the Prime Ministers Questions.