Sin tax error

Smoke ‘em if you’ve got ‘em: State lawmakers may kill proposed legislation to raise the legal smoking age to 21 from 18 because the state would collect millions less in tax revenue from the sale of cigarettes. With bills already due for last summer’s wildfires and other needs, lawmakers say the state can’t spare the potential lost revenue.

Hear that, kids? Your state needs you. Light up. And while you’re at it, consider bumping up your habit to a pack a day.

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American history’s bad rap: Among the highlights of Monday night’s Grammy Awards was a live Broadway performance by the cast of the rap musical “Hamilton,” about the Founding Father who was mortally wounded by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.

The East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry was nothing compared to Hamilton dissing Burr by calling him “profligate, a voluptuary in the extreme.” Dah’m. I mean, that’s cold, brah.

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Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1923, English archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen in its unearthed tomb in Egypt, revealing a jumble of thousands of relics.

Along with making one of history’s greatest archeological finds, Carter also is credited as the creator and an executive producer for the A&E Channel’s “Hoarders.”

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