Did you see that article that was on the yahoo homepage..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap_on_go_ot/tobacco_tax
the third line from the bottom:
“But smoking control advocates such as Lindblom say tobacco taxes should be even higher. “There’s a lot of room to go after cigars and smokeless,” he said. “We are certainly hopeful that health care reform will include some more increases.”
all of you people who said they are only going after smokers because it affects other people in the form of secondhand smoke are wrong. Just as patriots feared, the government is now using its power to decide what is best for other people too. First it was regular cigaretts, then other tobacco products, some states have the junk food tax, what next, are they going to send a government agent to my house to make sure I go to the gym and have good health so I don’t put a burden on the health care system, can they hold my hand when I cross the street too??? People who are so happy to see a pack of cigaretts go from $3 to $8 in the past 10 years because of governent intervention failed to see the conseseqences. You only focus on the statistics of the number of smokers decreasing, but lack the vision to see the poltical consequences. F you
Smokeless Cigarettes
