[brat]

"They are not conservatives if they buy into these obscene tax increases and interference with someone's life."

I beg to differ. It was Ronnie and NANCY Reagan who unleashed this antismoking hatred on us. Don't forget that. It was so successful for state coffers, that the Dims took up the cause in order to get more money to spend for their programs.

[Wingy]

It was Ronnie and NANCY Reagan who unleashed this antismoking hatred on us.

Hey guy, check your recent history. It was Ted Kennedy that raised the tax on a pack of cigs. He said the increase was only temporary, and that was written into the bill,(later repealed) and it was in one of those three foot tall stacks that Reagan had to sign. The Dims had a really neat strategy for a while of delaying all the spending bills until the last minute then sending the whole mess down to RR for his signiture just before the whole govt ground to a halt. Something the Washington Compost could blame on their favorite President. Needless to say, it worked.

[poet]

I believe Ronnie & nancy were against drugs. I don't rememember them engaging in a no-smoking campaign.
It has always been the "do gooders" who try to change us.

For instance, the environmental wackos and the animal rights wackos and of course, thr anti-amoking wackos in addition to the pro-abortion wackos. Let's not forget the politically correct wackos. These people, en toto, have a totalitarian mindset, therefore, they are dangerous to all freedom loving people.

P.S. If a cigarette tax was put in effect during Reagan's terms, just remember, he had a demoRATically controlled congress along with some RINOS who went along.