[Dialup Llama]

>The crackdown is evidence that Mayor Michael Bloomberg is serious in his "campaign against tobacco,"

If Bloomberg really were in a serious campaign against deadly tobacco, he would make it illegal. What Bloomberg is really serious about is increasing taxes falsely using the rhetoric of public health as a pretext.

[SheLion]

If Bloomberg really were in a serious campaign against deadly tobacco, he would make it illegal. What Bloomberg is really serious about is increasing taxes falsely using the rhetoric of public health as a pretext.

You speak good sense. I wish all non-smokers would wake up and smell the roses? When I think "Bloomberg," I smell garbage.

[aristeides]

But if you raise taxes beyond a certain point, tax revenues may in fact decrease, because virtually everybody smuggles. Bloomberg may have passed that point on the graph.