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To: SheLion
The general non-smoking public have no idea how much smoker's are being hit upon to balance budgets and pay for all the state's pet programs.

There was an OLD woman in line for cigs at a local gas station right after Jacob's Field was built with "sin" tax money. She lamented that while she helped build it, she couldn't even have a cig while attending a game.

Her solution is one I have never forgotten; "Every smoker in the country should quit buying cigarettes for ONE MONTH. The government would be paying us to start smoking again."

52 posted on 05/28/2005 11:26:04 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (I - L O V E - my attitude problem!)
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To: Justanobody
Her solution is one I have never forgotten; "Every smoker in the country should quit buying cigarettes for ONE MONTH. The government would be paying us to start smoking again."

I've said that a lot.  If everyone could just stop buying cigarettes for even a week, the government would start going into a tail spin.

54 posted on 05/28/2005 11:29:01 AM PDT by SheLion (Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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