On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 08:58:11 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
wrote:

smokers must feel they are under siege

in pennsylvania smoking is illegal in just about any public place including parks. its still allowed in selected areas of casinos, but theres a move to make it illegal in casinos too.

hopefully thenew state budget will tax all tobacco / smoking products much more expensive, by jacking up the taxes


face facts smokers, soon it will be totally illegal.
Taxing tobacco has little effect on "hard core" smokers. They just
buy their illegal untaxed smokes mon Indian reservations. The bands
make out like bandits, the smokers get cheap smokes, and the
government gets even less tobacco tax.

"legalizing" and "controlling" weed will have the same effect. How can
"the law" differentiate between taxed and illegal weed?

It's illegal for underaged kids to buy smokes - so all the highschool
kids (and grade 5 and 6 "toughs" who want to smoke get their smokes
from the same pusher they get their weed from - some kid in their
class who's big brother/mom/dad/whateverpicks up trunkloads of untaxed
cigs from Brantford or Sarnia or one of the other local "first
nations" tobacco shops.". It's just like Moonshine.