Just announced on Fox as well. The AG's are spreading more propaganda! I just knew that when smokers rolled their own and/or went across borders to buy cigarette, and the state wasn't getting that revenue, then the AG would gleefully laugh and spew out "See? Our war on cigarettes is winning! People aren't smoking much anymore."
Lying bast*&ds. Hate the creeps.
The ultimate in shadenfreude. Bureaucrats and governmental entities enriching themselves on the weakness of humankind. I have said it once I'll say it a thousand more. Cities and states are going to find out just how far they can go before the public gets tired of all their labor going for the public good (relatively speaking), and very little for their own.
The laws of finance state that as the number of people paying taxes rise, the rates must fall or greed is the result. Is not working for the government considered by many to be the jobs with the greatest number of long term benefits?
The unfortunate part of that is, the more people working for governments, which produce nothing and consume prodigious quantities of money, the more people there are with ideas about what needs to be done with the results of your labor and mine.