our government does not want to see smoking end. if it does, then tobacco farmers will be hurt, but more importantly, another source of income will dry up -- sin tax. the liberal ploy here is to pit smokers against non-smokers. the non-smokers feel justified in helping save someone's life and they figure the smoker 'deserves' to pay the tax anyway.
hey, it has worked. look at all the responses on the various threads about smoking the last few days. an awful lot of freepers want to punish smokers...
I don't know about those, but as I quoted, all hell will break lose if cigarettes were illegal. How would the revenues be recouped?