Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.misc,net.med Subject: Re: Why Smoke? Message-ID: <3047@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 14:20:24 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3047 Posted: Wed Jun 13 14:20:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 01:45:33 EDT References: <269@ihu1e.UUCP>, <144@plx.UUCP> <3045@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <2259@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 11 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