[marktwain]

I always flinch when I here the anti-tobacco ads. They so blatantly lie. It is a clear indicator of how far sunk into depravity our country has fallen when producers can be forced to pay for false propaganda against their own product. It is the essense of evil.

I have no stock in tobacco companies, and I don't smoke, but the clear extortion racket of the tobacco settlement makes me ill.

[Utopia]

but the clear extortion racket of the tobacco settlement makes me ill.

I couldn't agree more. With all the tobacco nonsense, the one thing that kept going through my mind was: "who's next?" If we can demonize a legal product like this - what's to stop the same people from going after junk food, burgers, snacks, and the dreaded twinkie. After all, Twinkies have too much sugar, and Twinkies kill.

[Mr Ducklips]

Agreed. They make me want to bomit. BTW, how are Tom & Huck doin'?