Governments often claim that they impose high taxes on cigarettes because smoking is bad for your health. They claim that the high taxes are intended to discourage your consumption. I've been asked to use my understanding of the elasticity of demand to dispute this claim, assuming that cigarettes have a very inelastic demand. I've also been asked to Illustrate with a graph. Hint: Very inelastic is not the same as inelastic or perfectly inelastic.