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To: Libloather

Congress tries to regulate tobacco for the first time.

If this is Congress's first foray into tobacco regulation, then why has BATFE had a "t" in it for decades?

2 posted on 05/13/2008 6:10:31 PM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)

To: coloradan

Taxes?
barbra ann

5 posted on 05/13/2008 6:17:38 PM PDT by barb-tex

To: coloradan

If this is Congress's first foray into tobacco regulation, then why has BATFE had a "t" in it for decades?

The government has been able to control its taxation and its interstate shipment -- not its contents.

26 posted on 05/13/2008 8:59:48 PM PDT by ReignOfError

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