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Government: People
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Government can benefit from religion, and religion can benefit from government. While governments can threaten people with physical harm for observed violations of the law, religion often provides a psychological disincentive for socially destructive or anti-government actions.[36][37] Religion can ... give people a sense of peace and resolve even when they are in trying circumstances, and when an individual's religious beliefs are aligned with the government's, that person will tend to see government as a friend—especially during religious controversies.
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Underlying the government action is the damage this conspiracy inflicted on Canada's national strategy to reduce tobacco consumption, especially among young people, through doubling taxes and duties on tobacco products. Massive cross-border smuggling frustrated these efforts and in 1994 forced the government to significantly reduce excise taxes. As a result, the lives of many Canadians were once again put at risk by this dangerous substance.
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In the most basic sense, a people of one nation will see the government of another nation as the enemy when the two nations are at war. For example, the people of Carthage saw the Roman government as the enemy during the Punic wars.[38]
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