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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (14540)	11/29/1997 9:28:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Chaz; In those days I never smoked, but 75% of peers did. The truth about tobacco was concealed for years and denied. Now that the truth is known most intelligent people refuse to smoke. Some I know are addicts and have tried to quit, and failed. One has had a collapsed lung twice, and keep smoking. His wife smokes too and they both want to quit, but never in phase, and thus never support each other. I expect to carry a box for a few people one day... It should be price at $2 per cigarrette at the factory door. Of course a domestic cash crop would emerge like marijuana(it also causes lung cancer if you smoke 20-40 joints per day, if you can stand it, and has other effects) We have state liquor stores, beer stores in Canada(ontario state) and also a very high price and it does cut down useage. There is also a certain amount of smiggling, about 10-15% of use is smuggled. When they had cigarrettes at $4 per pack, 50% of useage was smuggled, as they stupidly allowed the factories to ship untaxed cigarettes to other states, and of course they never got there. The only way is a factory tax, and that gets sent to the state of final destination, as it is easy to meter the factory, but hard to follow trucks, and $2-3 extra per pack would not allow for a surrogate industry to make effective fakes that would get share . So they should put a $2-3 tax per pack of 20 at the factory door, federally. And remit the states portion to the final destination state or country. They could ban exports, small potatoes. Ban imports too. Bill