[SolidRedState]

Yep, let them outlaw smoking and outlaw tobacco. Yet they continue to subsididize tobacco growers.

The local governments continue to rely on tobacco taxes to fund special projects that otherwise would not get built or would strain other tax revenue sources.

Then they ban smoking in and around the same structures that those taxes paid for.

[Dawgreg]

I sometimes wonder what would happen if the deep pocket tobacco companies were to burn their fields in protest and leave the country. We'd have politicians, trial lawyers and the like jumping out of buildings, gnashing their teeth in agony and pulling their expensive hair plugs out. Just a thought.