As an ex smoker I understand both sides of the issue but the one thing that really pees in my cornflakes is the lying and deception in Congress and the states with the settlement money. It was my understanding that all of the settlement money was to be used for health and anti smoking programs. Yet like here in Tennessee, most states are dumping it into the general fund or earmarking it for some wasteful pet project.
Where else but the Socialist States of America can you have an industry taxed into oblivion by government, yet be forced to provide welfare to the producers of the product?