Thank you for your reply. My questions were mainly rhetorical. It is puzzling that there are 50 million smokers in the country and if the ones I know are any example, they are not sheep. Their creative means of avoiding their local state tax on cigarettes are nothing short of brilliant. I refrain for saying more for obvious reasons.
Getting back to the number of smokers, if only half of them contributed one ($1) dollar a month to a Lucky Strike-Back fund, that would amount to $25 million a month for filing and maintaining suits against the worst violators of civil rights on both coasts (no smoking at the beach??? bust me for littering, but don't be silly!)
. $25 million a month divided into $25,000 chunks means we can harrass 100 communities indefinitely, bleed them dry and cancel any share they may be "enjoying" from the tobacco "sin" windfall. Personally, I would be ecstatic to contribute for the rest of my life. Just knowing those moronic controlling twits are constantly defending themselves would be sooooo satisfying.
Publius wrote: "Getting back to the number of smokers, if only half of them contributed one ($1) dollar a month to a Lucky Strike-Back fund, that would amount to $25 million a month for filing and maintaining suits against the worst violators of civil rights on both coasts (no smoking at the beach??? bust me for littering, but don't be silly!)"
If PM and the other tobacco companies had partnered with smokers in an openly funded "defense fund" back in the 90s (with the companies and smokers each kicking in a dime a pack) instead of getting buddy buddy with the Attorney Generals and the Antis we might have seen something like that happening. Unfortunately, the companies sold smokers down the river with the Master Settlement Agreement in an attempt to save their own hides, and smokers never got over the misperception that the compaines were fighting for them and thus there was no need to fight for themselves.
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Michael J. McFadden