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echo: askacop
to: RICH WILLBANKS
from: RON TAYLOR
date: 1998-04-20 10:06:00
subject: Teenage Smoking

RW>JFD>However. You are also correct that one need not play the tobacco game
RW>JFD>Just don't smoke.
RW>RT> Such a simple concept yet so many folks don't seem to get
  >RT> it.
RW>RT> The tax on tobacco doesn't bother me in the least.  I don't
  >RT> pay it! ---
RW>It bothers me but not because of the cost.  I'm only
  >allowed one cigar a month (less if the doc finds out
  >about it).
Interesting.  Your physician tells you that tobacco is hazardous to your
health and you defend its use.
RW>It bothers me because it is the government forcing
  >people to stop doing something by driving the price so
  >high no one can afford it.
It bothers me to.  But when folks won't voluntarily police themselves,
what other alternatives are available?
  >Why not add a $10 per box tax on ammo to pay for the
  >medical cost of the people who are shot?
That has been proposed, seriously.
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