Originally posted by Cris
While people see the 3000 9/11 deaths as being very tragic it pales into almost insignificance when compared to the agony and long term suffering of the 400,000 who die EACH year.
The difference being that smokers today made a conscious decision to do something that would result in death. Who in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, or the four hijacked planes agreed to be human sacrifices for those 19 "peaceful" Muslims?
Originally posted by Cris
If the Bush administration was really concerned about American lives then they could easily shutdown the tobacco companies permanently.
You think shutting down powerful, established companies producing and selling a legal product will be easy?
Get real.
Originally posted by Cris
The legal costs would be insignificant compared to the $billions being spent on high tech weaponry to fight Christian wars in Afghanistan and IRAQ.
The legal costs would be frightening, not to mention the huge amounts of money the state and federal governments would lose from all the taxes it imposes on cigarette sales.
I can't even begin to guess how much it would cost the government to enforce this ban against smugglers and the black marketeers.