That's my view, as well.
One reason the lawmakers won't make it illegal............for instance: the Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine (funded by the taxes smokers pay on cigarettes), spent $10,000 plus $4500 at Wiscasset Race Track in 2002.
5 Race Teams sponsored with our cigarette taxes........
Partnership for a Tobacco Free Maine not only sponsoring the race car, they are sponsoring Speedway 96!
I don't know what they did with the money in 2003. I had a personal death in the family and didn't have time to follow-up.
PTFM is funded by the Tobacco Settlement Money, to which the people who pay cigarette taxes in Maine pay into. Is this where the money should be spent? A Race Track? What about the much needed health care Gov. Baldacci say we need.
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