As long as the leading bright lights seem to think taxing a legal product to the hilt is the way to go we might as well look at some other "addicting" products already taxed and pile on more taxes, like beer, wine, liquor. Why not tax crack and cocaine, there seems to be plenty of that to go around; Oh forgot, that stuff is illegal...don't want to mess with hard drugs do we...no go after the legal stuff and get the taxes from law abiding people, lets make crooks out of them too.
Hooray for the American Indian...they have won again. Smoking and gambling is at an all time high! Spending an enormous amount of money on ones campaign, obviously doesn't make a good mayor... Mayor Mike Bloomberg is a case in point. Careful people, whom you elect, when we elect elitists (and they are easy to spot) we elect people who really don't care about the little man/woman. In the future, don't elect non-smokers, non-drinkers or people who don't like to shoot. New York...you've now got another political problem.