[mugs99]

You're just itching to pick a fight, aren't you? LOL Your a hoot
LOL!
No, I'm not. I'm simply pointing out the truth to you. I don't use any drugs including alcohol and tobacco, so it's no skin off my butt what they do to you or any other addict. Many, including me, consider nicotine addicts exactly the same as heroin addicts. But...I believe you have the right to enjoy your addiction. I don't believe I have the right to dictate to you what you can or can not consume.

Well, cigarettes have been a legal commodity for years and years and years
Cannabis was a legal commodity for "years and years and years". The same is true of every drug that has been added to the CSA. Time will not protect you.

Someone WILL have to pay!
Someone always does. The population grows adding new taxpayers to the rolls every year.
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[Gabz]

Other than equating consumers of nicotine (which I am sure you do consume on a fairly regular basis) to heroin addicts, I have to agree with your premise regarding items added to the CSA.

For tobacco to be added to the CSA, though, I do believe they will have to come up with another justification than nicotine....because of how many other plants, including fruits and vegetables contain nicotine. A botanist friend once explained that properly cured and dried, the leaves of such plants as tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, and even potatoes wuold cntain roughly the same amount of nicotine as similarly cured/dried tobacco leaves.

[John W]

Someone WILL have to pay!
"Someone always does. The population grows adding new taxpayers to the rolls every year."

No.If cigarettes were banned tomorrow, your taxes would have to be increased immediatley by a substantial amount to fund the budgets of the various governments you live under.

[beckysueb]

The population grows adding new taxpayers to the rolls every year.

You are very wrong. The population of legal taxpaying citizens in America is declining. World population is growing but thats not going to help the American tax bsase now, is it? Lousy nannystater! I can't wait till they come after your Twinkies and Starbucks!