EDITORIAL - Spare the smokers

SF Chronicle ^ | 8-16-02 | Editoral, SF Chronicle

[Oldeconomybuyer]

OUR LEGISLATORS in Sacramento should discard the notion that smokers -- often down at the heels and ailing -- are a major solution for the state's budget impasse.

Democratic politicians who back Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson's proposal of a $2.13-a-pack increase in the cigarette tax -- to $3 a pack -- are fooling no one. They care little about saving smokers from the ravages of their habit. If the pols did care, California's investment in anti-smoking education would not be shrinking 45 percent between this fiscal year and next.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

California democrats want to "tax the poor".

[billhilly]

If those ugly republicans take away social security how on earth could the smokers pay the tax?

[marktwain]

Where was the SF Chronicle when the anti smoking fascists started pushing this stuff... Loudly pushing for the settlement. They were told that this was just a moneygrabbing ploy. Now they start complaining about what they played a major role in creating.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[Gabz]

How about a tax on blowhard politicians?

[Great Dane]

often down at the heels and ailing.......

And pathetic...... hardly.

[Doe Eyes]

More BS from the "Liberal Press".