Smoking tax is bill of attainder

I hadn't thought of it this way before but after learning a short time ago about a bill of attainder because of the ninety percent tax the yahoos on capitol hill were trying to place on the yahoos on Wall St. I'm thinking that the new smoking tax is definitely a bill of attainder. It targets only the percentage of Americans that smoke and that's unfair. And don't give me this S-CHIP crap. Everybody thinks its for the kids. Well its not. Its an authoritarian attempt to tell people what they can and can't do. If they can't make people stop smoking they'll simply tax them out of price range. Think about this. If everyone stopped smoking who's going to pay for S-CHIP then. Advocates of the tax say that smoking related illnesses weigh heavily on the health care system and I don't doubt that at all but if thats the case then why aren't the extra revenues going towards smoking cessation programs. I doubt very seriously that this tax will single handedly cover the entire S-CHIP program. If Democrats think the health care system is already out of control then why are they adding more programs in the first place.