Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Smoking . . . (Slow Motion Suicide) - (nf) Message-ID: <268@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 13:51:37 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.268 Posted: Thu Jun 23 13:51:37 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 21:28:27 EDT References: uiucdcs.2216 Lines: 9 Right. Taxation is the answer. Tax the hell out of cigarettes, AND the companies that make them. I know that that won't stop very many people (some of them will pay $6 for a tube of toothpaste that is supposed to be for smokers. I wish it had occurred to ME that people who will spend $N on cigarettes would spend $6 for a tube of toothpaste!), but if we could balance the budget on the backs of those polluting our air, I would at least be able to tolerate the smoke. --Randy