[Jay Howard Smith]

Other tobacco manufacturers such as R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. say they have abandoned efforts to give away cigarettes to soldiers. "We are not sending cigarettes to troops in Iraq or elsewhere nor are we currently investigating that option," said Carole S. Crosslin, an R.J. Reynolds spokeswoman.

Got started on Camels when they came in my K-Rats 54 years ago. I quit 6 months ago. Just cant afford them anymore..!

[wita]

Don't smoke, but agree completely on the affordability index. I used to "run the numbers" for my smoking friends, on how they could buy a house with the proceeds of twenty years of smoking at interest. It didn't seem to help, but pictures of skeletonized sports figures suffering from jaw removal from smokeless, and wasted bodies from cancer, worked, where "running the numbers" didn't.