[Eric Blair 2084]

More here also from Dr. Michael Siegel:

Senator Enzi to Introduce Alternative to FDA Tobacco Legislation; Bill Far Stronger than FDA Bill; Embarrassment for Major Anti-Smoking Groups

[Brujo]

Hmm, wouldn't cutting off subsidies pretty much wipe out tobacco growing immediately?

[Eric Blair 2084]

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[AdamSelene235]

Why not place it in the same class of drugs as marijuana.

It would make about as much sense.

[Mad_as_heck]

It will never happen because of all the money the government collects in taxes on tobacco.

[Lexington Green]

Billions to be made in the Black Market

[szweig]

What a maroon!! And you non-smokers better get up in arms about this crap...when there is no more tobacco tax money coming in then they’ll come after some other non-favorable activity for their blood money — quite possibly YOURS.

Get the government out of the health business — in all ways and always!!!!! SSZ

[Brujo]

Oops, am I misinformed? Did tobacco subsidies actually get cut?

[dblshot]

So what will we tax to provide health care for the children? I know - sex. That way there will be more money and if we wipe it out we won’t have to worry about health care for children, well maybe the ones from a long glass tube in 2525.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Uh, it’s still a bad idea. The federal government has no business regulating personal behavior.

[ElkGroveDan]

Hmmm, what about the people who like tobacco, and WANT to purchase it from people who grow tobacco and WANT to sell it.

[sionnsar]

What would the Founders think?

[Shermy]

This is a joke, right?

Some crazed, unemployed carbon trader/Milken acolyte think this up?

[gondramB]

>>Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo, Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today introduced legislation to wipe out tobacco use in America through an innovative cap-and-trade program that will shrink the size of the tobacco market over the next 20 years.<<

Hmm if they do this right they can create a completely new illicit underground, untaxed substance industry.

[lowbridge]

[Iconoclast2]

Foolish me. I thought there were real Republicans in Wyoming.

[badgerlandjim]

bump!

[Flora McDonald]

WHAT?!?! How did I miss it? The War On Terror is over? Did we win? The borders are secure now? I missed that one. Social Security has been reformed and funded? Holy schmoley! Our prisons are nearly empty? Have I been in a coma?

It must be happy days when smoking becomes a federal crime!

[Steamburg]

So for the live your own life mentality that once made Wyoming a proud state. It must be in the water in D.C. He didn’t become the great white father just by going to the Senate. If this keeps up he won’t be welcome at home.

[freekitty]

I would say a lot of nicotine deprived persons are going to go after these guys.

[caisson71]

All this political prancing about tobacco and smoking is nonsense. If smoking/tobacco is so bad, why not make it illegal and end it today? Tomorrow we’ll make “fat” illegal and the next day “sitting too long”?