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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.med
Subject: Re: Why Smoke?
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 14:20:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 14:20:24 1984
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Nationally, and in many states, the tobacco lobby WOULD be too strong,
as it is currently. However, it might be possible to get it through
one or two states, if it was simultaneously introduced in all, and
the tobacco lobby had to fight it everywhere at once. So it might be
possible to get a toehold that way and work on others gradually.
The tobacco lobby will inevitably weaken as fewer people smoke; they'll
own some states forever (or thereabouts) and therefore some 
congresscritters, but elsewhere the power will diminish and such
efforts as these will have a better chance.

Will