Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:02:50 -0500 From: Bob <uctraingNOSPAMersnopsamanet.com> Subject: Re: OT: taxes (long rant about smoking)
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:01:23 GMT, Paul Halliday <pjghnopsamyonder.co.uk> wrote: >The package said, "do not >operate machinery" - it should've said "don't make any f*cking plans". ROTFLMAO >If tobacco tax went direct to the Health Service (which I actually work for) >I would be very pleased indeed. Since it does not, I'm a bit narked at >having to put up with no end of crap about me being a smoker when I >contribute so much to the general health of the economy. Grrrrrr :) Same here in the USA. Tobacco taxes most always go into the general fund for the states. A couple of years ago the states won a major lawsuit against the tobacco companies for knowingly addicting people to a deadly product. The upshot was that the states got a barrel of money out of it. Most pledged to use it for anti smoking efforts, few did. My favorite was North Carolina (a major tobacco growing state) where they used it for - you guessed it - assistance to the tobacco farmers :-) >When the f*ckers outlaw it totally and armed Police call me out with the >cigs above my head, I'll be shouting "come and get me, copper" :) He, he, he... Here's one you can use, courtesy of the gun lobby: "You'll get my (insert tobacco product instead of gun model here) when you pry it from my cold, dead (insert "yellowed") fingers. :-) Bob
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
